ENABLE / DISABLE ALL TRIGGERS IN DATABASE

Hi,

I made the function myself. Here is it, if anyone else has a need for this.

Teemu

/* Enable/disable all the triggers in database */
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fn_triggerall(DoEnable boolean) RETURNS integer AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
mytables RECORD;
BEGIN
FOR mytables IN SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE reltriggers > 0 AND NOT relname LIKE 'pg_%'
LOOP
IF DoEnable THEN
EXECUTE 'ALTER TABLE ' || mytables.relname || ' ENABLE TRIGGER ALL';
ELSE
EXECUTE 'ALTER TABLE ' || mytables.relname || ' DISABLE TRIGGER ALL';
END IF;
END LOOP;

RETURN 1;

END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION fn_triggerall(DoEnable boolean) OWNER TO postgres;
COMMENT ON FUNCTION fn_triggerall(DoEnable boolean) IS 'Enable/disable all the triggers in database';
----- Original Message -----
From: Teemu Juntunen
To: PostgreSQL
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] ENABLE / DISABLE ALL TRIGGERS IN DATABASE

Hi,

I think this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer from arcive nor google. How to disable/enable all the riggers in a database? I have problem with disabled triggers after database restore. If there is no simple way, could this be made in a function where you find the table names and construct the needed commands in strings. If so, how to get all the tablenames from database?

Best regards and thanks!
Teemu Juntunen

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 04:24, Teemu Juntunen wrote:

Hi,

I think this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer from arcive
nor google. How to disable/enable all the riggers in a database? I have
problem with disabled triggers after database restore. If there is no
simple way, could this be made in a function where you find the table names
and construct the needed commands in strings. If so, how to get all the
tablenames from database?

Best regards and thanks!
Teemu Juntunen

You can accomplish this by manipulating the run time parameter,
session_replication_role. For example, from within your psql session:
SET SESSION session_replication_role = replica;
This will prevent all triggers from firing for the entire session except those
defined as "replica". We use this all the time.

HTH...
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Teemu Juntunen wrote:

I think this has been asked before, but I can't find the
answer from arcive nor google. How to disable/enable all the
riggers in a database? I have problem with disabled triggers
after database restore. If there is no simple way, could this
be made in a function where you find the table names and
construct the needed commands in strings. If so, how to get
all the tablenames from database?

Use the information_schema, see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/information-schema.html

There is a view called "triggers" that will be useful.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe