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  • February 2, 2009 at 10:23 am

    #936558

    Marios Philippopoulos (2/2/2009)

    Wow, would the trigger feed on itself that way? I hadn't thought of that...

    That's only possible if recursive triggers are enabled. It's a database-level option and it's disabled by default.

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