Improvement to CREATE TRIGGER and catalog documentation.

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit 49077e87aff0 · 2002-12-17T17:41:30.000Z
Neil Conway
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--
  Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers
- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.63 2002/10/14 04:29:23 momjian Exp $
+ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.64 2002/12/17 17:41:30 momjian Exp $
  -->
 
 <chapter id="catalogs">
@@ -1068,9 +1068,12 @@
       <entry>relhasindex</entry>
       <entry><type>bool</type></entry>
       <entry></entry>
-      <entry>True if this is a table and it has (or recently had) any indexes.
-       This is set by CREATE INDEX, but not cleared immediately by DROP INDEX.
-       VACUUM clears relhasindex if it finds the table has no indexes.
+      <entry>
+       True if this is a table and it has (or recently had) any
+       indexes. This is set by <command>CREATE INDEX</command>, but
+       not cleared immediately by <command>DROP INDEX</command>.
+       <command>VACUUM</command> clears relhasindex if it finds the
+       table has no indexes.
       </entry>
      </row>
 
@@ -2049,11 +2052,11 @@
       <entry><type>bool</type></entry>
       <entry></entry>
       <entry>
-       This is false for internal languages (such as SQL) and true for
-       user-defined languages.  Currently,
-       <application>pg_dump</application> still uses this to determine
-       which languages need to be dumped, but this may be replaced by
-       a different mechanism sometime.
+       This is false for internal languages (such as
+       <acronym>SQL</acronym>) and true for user-defined languages.
+       Currently, <application>pg_dump</application> still uses this
+       to determine which languages need to be dumped, but this may be
+       replaced by a different mechanism sometime.
       </entry>
      </row>
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml,v 1.30 2002/11/23 03:59:06 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml,v 1.31 2002/12/17 17:41:30 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    <date>2000-03-25</date>
   </refsynopsisdivinfo>
   <synopsis>
-CREATE TRIGGER <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> {
-    BEFORE | AFTER } { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">event</replaceable> [ OR ... ] }
-    ON <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ FOR EACH { ROW | STATEMENT } ]
+CREATE TRIGGER <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> { BEFORE | AFTER } { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">event</replaceable> [ OR ... ] }
+    ON <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ FOR [ EACH ] { ROW | STATEMENT } ]
     EXECUTE PROCEDURE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">func</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">arguments</replaceable> )
   </synopsis>
   
@@ -186,7 +185,9 @@ CREATE TRIGGER
    deleted tuple. In contrast, a trigger that executes <literal>FOR
    EACH STATEMENT</literal> of the specified operation only executes
    once for any given operation, regardless of how many rows it
-   modifies.
+   modifies (in particular, an operation that modifies zero rows will
+   still result in the execution of any applicable <literal>FOR EACH
+   STATEMENT</literal> triggers).
   </para>
 
   <para>
@@ -330,6 +331,12 @@ CREATE TABLE distributors (
       time-of-creation order.  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
       uses name order, which was judged more convenient to work with.
      </para>
+
+     <para>
+      The ability to specify multiple actions for a single trigger
+      using <literal>OR</literal> is a <productname>PostgreSQL</>
+      extension of the SQL standard.
+     </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
