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event_triggers
Allow temporarily disabling execution of event triggers in order to troubleshoot and repair faulty event triggers. All event triggers will be disabled by setting it to false. Setting the value to true allows all event triggers to fire, this is the default value. Only superusers and users with the appropriate SET privilege can change this setting.
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- boot val
- on
- category
- Client Connection Defaults / Statement Behavior
- context
- superuser
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- When enabled, event triggers will fire for all applicable statements.
- lang
- en
- max val
- Unknown
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- Unknown
- name
- event_triggers
- short desc
- Enables event triggers.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- bool
Definition PG 18
Allow temporarily disabling execution of event triggers in order to troubleshoot and repair faulty event triggers. All event triggers will be disabled by setting it to false. Setting the value to true allows all event triggers to fire, this is the default value. Only superusers and users with the appropriate SET privilege can change this setting.
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center · PostgreSQL 18 · wiki-repair-20261023:c1ae8c91aa5e2b50462ee69070e68bad60a597b068283e3980c899a8641b84d7
Text language: en · wiki-repair-20261023:c1ae8c91aa5e2b50462ee69070e68bad60a597b068283e3980c899a8641b84d7