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4.17.0 (2025-12-04)

Improvements

  • Add pgtrigger.is_ignored to check if triggers are being ignored by @dablak in #217.

4.16.0 (2025-11-30)

Changes

  • Drop Python 3.9 support, add Python 3.14 support, add Postgres 18 support, add Django 6.0 support by @wesleykendall in #216

4.15.4 (2025-08-16)

Fixes

  • Fix use of core Django management command options (e.g. --skip-checks) when using manage.py pgtrigger by @wesleykendall in #214.

4.15.3 (2025-06-12)

Changes

  • Clarify docs on statement-level triggers and how pgtrigger.Composer works by @wesleykendall in #212.

4.15.2 (2025-04-29)

Fixes

  • Remove incorrect validation for using concretely-inherited fields in trigger conditions by @wesleykendall in #208.

4.15.1 (2025-04-25)

Fixes

  • Allow ID fields of foreign keys to be expressed in pgtrigger conditions by @wesleykendall in #206.

4.15.0 (2025-04-20)

Improvements

  • Added the pgtrigger.Composer trigger utility for writing conditional statement-level triggers by @wesleykendall in #204.
  • Provide statement-level versions of pgtrigger.Protect and pgtrigger.ReadOnly by @wesleykendall in #204.

Fixes

4.14.0 (2025-04-18)

Changes

  • Support better type annotations for the compiler and migrations module by @cjwatson in #200.
  • Support Django 5.2, drop Postgres 13 support by @wesleykendall in #203.

4.13.3 (2024-12-15)

Changes

4.13.2 (2024-11-18)

Fixes

  • Allow overriding of management command logger by @max-prtsr in #187.

4.13.1 (2024-11-11)

Fixes

  • Properly support psycopg.sql.SQL and psycopg.sql.Composed objects for query execution when ignoring triggers by @max-muoto in #177.

4.13.0 (2024-11-01)

Fixes

  • Remove breaking typing_extensions import into a TYPE_CHECKING block by @BillSchumacher in #181

Changes

  • Added Python 3.13 support, dropped Python 3.8. Added Postgres17 support by @wesleykendall in #182.

4.12.2 (2024-09-13)

Fixes

  • Add missing py.typed, add __invert__ for type-checking onto pgtrigger.Q by @max-muoto in #176.
  • Fix typo in statement-level trigger docs by @g-nie in #175.

4.12.1 (2024-09-08)

Fixes

Changes

4.12.0 (2024-08-26)

Fixes

Changes

4.11.1 (2024-04-06)

Trivial

  • Fix ReadTheDocs builds. [Wesley Kendall, 9c7f377]

4.11.0 (2023-11-26)

Feature

  • Django 5.0 compatibility [Wesley Kendall, 2e1366e]

    Support and test against Django 5 with psycopg2 and psycopg3.

4.10.1 (2023-11-26)

Trivial

  • Change docs so that deferred (AFTER) triggers return NULL [Peter Thomassen, 59be2e9]
  • Fix typo in cookbook (exclude instead of filter) [Peter Thomassen, 3714c08]
  • Fix typo in docs model protection example [Peter Thomassen, 00b86af]
  • Do additional error checking for arguments supplied to FSM trigger. [Wesley Kendall, e203834]

4.10.0 (2023-11-23)

Bug

  • Fix issues updating triggers in non-atomic migrations [Artem Streltsov, 888c4cf]

    Fields of trigger conditions can now have their types updated in non-atomic migrations.

4.9.0 (2023-10-16)

Feature

  • Utilities to build trigger conditions based on field changes. [Wesley Kendall, 1471a35]

    The following utility classes have been added to help trigger authors construct trigger conditions based on changes to underlying fields:

    • pgtrigger.AnyChange: If any supplied fields change, trigger the condition.
    • pgtrigger.AnyDontChange: If any supplied fields don't change, trigger the condition.
    • pgtrigger.AllChange: If all supplied fields change, trigger the condition.
    • pgtrigger.AllDontChange: If all supplied fields don't change, trigger the condition.

    A section in the docs was added for more examples on their use.

4.8.0 (2023-10-09)

Bug

  • Create triggers in unmigrated apps when --run-syncdb is specified [Daniel Hillier, b762f9d]

    Triggers are now properly created when running manage.py migration --run-syncdb for unmigrated apps. - Recreate triggers when a migration that removed triggers is unapplied [Daniel Hillier, c223910]

    Reverting a migration of dropped models will now successfully recreate triggers.

Feature

  • Add Python 3.12 support and use Mkdocs for documentation [Wesley Kendall, c2b389f]

    Python 3.12 and Postgres 16 are supported now, along with having revamped docs using Mkdocs and the Material theme.

    Python 3.7 support was dropped.

Trivial

  • Fix minor log formatting issues [Wesley Kendall, 76ab946]

4.7.0 (2023-06-08)

Feature

  • Added Python 3.11, Django 4.2, and Psycopg 3 support [Wesley Kendall, 27dc243]

    Python 3.11, Django 4.2, and Psycopg 3 are now supported and tested. Django 2.2 support has been dropped.

4.6.0 (2022-10-07)

Feature

  • Added pgtrigger.Func for accessing model properties in function declarations. [Wesley Kendall, 4bd6abf]

    When describing a trigger in Meta, it's not possible to access model meta properties like db_table. pgtrigger.Func solves this by exposing meta, fields, and columns variables that can be used in a format string.

    See the trigger cookbook in the docs for an example. - Added ReadOnly trigger for uneditable models and fields [Wesley Kendall, 0a3c162]

    The pgtrigger.ReadOnly trigger protects updates on models and takes an optional fields or exclude argument to specify which fields are read only. If no arguments are provided, the entire model is read only.

Trivial

  • Updated with latest Django template [Wesley Kendall, 84b46f1]

4.5.3 (2022-09-19)

Trivial

  • Fix typo in documentation [Francisco Couzo, def5432]
  • Fix issues when using Django's dummy database. [Wesley Kendall, cc1cb95]
  • Fixed minor documentation typos [Wes Kendall, dc473ff]

4.5.2 (2022-09-06)

Trivial

  • Add Soft-Delete Model Manager example to docs [Jason Oppel, 3a46ae7]

4.5.1 (2022-09-01)

Trivial

  • Remove unused migration code and restructure docs [Wes Kendall, a8793fc]
  • Optimize test suite [Wes Kendall, 863fa93]

4.5.0 (2022-08-31)

Bug

  • Migrations properly serialize dynamic triggers and add better support for reverse migrations [Wes Kendall, 2eb3014]

    Triggers that override get_func or otherwise generate dynamic SQL are properly reflected in migrations when the underlying implementation changes. Along with this, migrations now serialize SQL objects instead of trigger classes, making it more robust when reversing migrations or updating underlying implementations of existing triggers.

    This change updates the hashes of all triggers and thus re-creates all triggers when running makemigrations or when manually installing them.

4.4.0 (2022-08-27)

Bug

  • Pruning/installations fixed for Postgres versions 12 and under. [Wes Kendall, 22d60e9]

    Paritioned table support introduced a bug in using trigger management commands for Postgres 12 and under. This has been fixed.

Trivial

  • Local development enhancements [Wes Kendall, a4d3c9c]

4.3.4 (2022-08-26)

Trivial

  • Test against Django 4.1 and other CI improvements [Wes Kendall, 813f67e]

4.3.3 (2022-08-24)

Trivial

  • Fix ReadTheDocs builds [Wes Kendall, 3870643]

4.3.2 (2022-08-20)

Trivial

  • Fix release note rendering and code formatting changes [Wes Kendall, c834606]

4.3.1 (2022-08-19)

Trivial

  • Fixed ReadTheDocs builds [Wes Kendall, 2cd0c9e]

4.3.0 (2022-08-18)

Feature

  • Support for partitioned tables [Wes Kendall, 863b8cb]

    Installation commands and all core trigger functionality works with partitioned tables.

    Users will need to run python manage.py pgtrigger install to upgrade existing trigger installations, otherwise they will appear as outdated when running python manage.py pgtrigger ls.

    Although outdated triggers will still run successfully for non-partitioned tables, this backwards compatibility will be removed in version 5.

4.2.1 (2022-08-18)

Trivial

  • Do schema editor patching in App.ready() instead of module load [Wes Kendall, cce99ce]

4.2.0 (2022-08-18)

Bug

  • Ensure interoperability with other Postgres backends [Wes Kendall, 1c4f480]

    django-pgtrigger trigger migrations are interoperable with Postgis and other Postgres-flavored database backends.

4.1.0 (2022-08-17)

Bug

  • Allow altering columns from trigger conditions [Wes Kendall, 1178457]

    Previously if one changed the column type of a field used in a trigger condition, installation would fail because Postgres doesn't allow this.

    The schema editor was patched to allow for this behavior, dropping and recreating triggers when column types are altered.

4.0.1 (2022-08-15)

Trivial

  • Fixed minor issue in settings preventing docs from being built [Wes Kendall, 5ad18f8]

4.0.0 (2022-08-15)

Api-Break

  • Multi-database and registry behavior changed [Wes Kendall, 0663807]

    There were four key additions around multi-datbase and multi-schema support:

    1. When using a multi-datbase environment, django-pgtrigger now uses allow_migrate of the router rather than db_for_write to determine if a trigger should be installed for a model.

    2. Management commands were changed to operate on one database at a time to be consistent with Django management commands. Install, uninstall, prune, disable, enable, and ls all take an optional --database argument.

    3. pgtrigger.ignore, pgtrigger.constraints, and pgtrigger.schema were all updated to take a databases argument, defaulting to working on every postgres database when used for dynamic runtime behavior.

    4. The Postgres function used by pgtrigger.ignore is always installed in the public schema by default. It is referenced using its fully-qualified path. The schema can be changed with settings.PGTRIGGER_SCHEMA. Setting it to None will use the schema in the search path. Because of this change, the SQL for installed triggers changes, which causes triggers to appear as outdated when listing them. This can be fixed by running manage.py pgtrigger install to re-install triggers.

    Along with this, there were a few other breaking changes to the API:

    1. pgtrigger.get was renamed to pgtrigger.registered.
    2. manage.py pgtrigger ls shows the trigger status followed by the URI in each line of output.

    type: api-break

Bug

  • Reference UpdateSearchVector trigger columns correctly [Wes Kendall, 7d40894]

    Columns configured in the UpdateSearchVector trigger were previously referenced in SQL by their model field name and not their column name.

Feature

  • Added multi-schema support [Wes Kendall, 98342f2]

    django-pgtrigger didn't handle multiple schemas well, causing some issues for legacy installation commands.

    Multiple schema support is a first-class citizen. Depending on the database setup, you can now take advantage of the --schema options for management commands to dynamically set the schema.

    Docs were added that overview multi-schema support.

Trivial

  • Added docs for using triggers in abstract models [Wes Kendall, cd215ac]
  • Refactored project structure [Wes Kendall, 4d53eef]

3.4.0 (2022-08-11)

Bug

  • Fixed issues using pgtrigger.ignore with multiple databases [Wes Kendall, 557f0e1]

    pgtrigger.ignore now uses the connection of the database router when ignoring triggers.

Feature

  • Add pgtrigger.UpdateSearchVector to keep search vectors updated [Wes Kendall, 671e8be]

    When using Django's full-text search, one can keep a SearchVectorField updated with the relevant document fields by using pgtrigger.UpdateSearchVector.

    An example was added to the trigger cookbook. - Added pgtrigger.constraints for runtime configuration of deferrable triggers [Wes Kendall, 4b77b7b]

    pgtrigger.constraints mimics Postgres's SET CONSTRAINTS statement, allowing one to dynamically modify when a deferrable trigger runs.

    Documentation was also added for deferrable triggers with an example in the cookbook. - Added deferrable triggers [Wes Kendall, fe4f16e]

    Triggers now have an optional timing argument. If set, triggers will be created as "CONSTRAINT" triggers that can be deferred.

    When timing is set to pgtrigger.Immediate, the trigger will run at the end of a statement. pgtrigger.Deferred will cause the trigger to run at the end of the transaction.

    Note that deferrable triggers must have both pgtrigger.After and pgtrigger.Row values set for the when and level attributes.

3.3.0 (2022-08-10)

Bug

  • Fixes ignoring triggers with nested transactions [Wes Kendall, d32113d]

    pgtrigger.ignore avoids injecting SQL when transactions are in a failed state, allowing for one to use nested transactions while ignoring triggers. - Fixed issue re-installing triggers with different conditions. [Wes Kendall, 68e29d2]

    Triggers with conditions that change were not successfully re-installed with pgtrigger.install. Note that this only affects legacy installation and not installation with the new migration system.

3.2.0 (2022-08-08)

Feature

  • Support proxy models on default many-to-many "through" relationships. [Wes Kendall, 4cb0f65]

    Previously one had to use an unmanaged model to declare triggers on default many-to-many "through" relationships. Users can now define a proxy model on these instead.

    Support for unmanaged models was dropped.

3.1.0 (2022-08-08)

Api-Break

  • Integration with Django's migration system. [Wes Kendall, 6916c14]

    Triggers are fully integrated with Django's migration system, and they are no longer installed at the end of migrations by default. Users instead need to run python manage.py makemigrations to make trigger migrations for their applications.

    Triggers for models in third-party apps are declared with proxy models. Triggers for default many-to-many "through" models are declared with unmanaged models.

    For instructions on upgrading or preserving legacy behavior, see the frequently asked questions of the docs.

Bug

  • Fixed issues with proxy models and M2M "through" models. [Wes Kendall, 52aa81f]

    Proxy models weren't creating migrations, and M2M "through" models are handled by making an unmanaged model that points to the right DB table.

Feature

  • Remove dependency on django-pgconnection. [Wes Kendall, af0c908]

    Users no longer have to wrap settings.DATABASES with django-pgconnection in order to use the pgtrigger.ignore function.

2.5.1 (2022-07-31)

Trivial

  • Updated with latest Django template, fixing doc builds [Wes Kendall, 4b175a4]

2.5.0 (2022-07-30)

Bug

  • Ignore non-postgres databases in global operations [Wes Kendall, a1aff5d]

    Some operations, such as pruning triggers, would iterate over all databases in a project, including non-postgres ones. This fix ignores non-postgres databases. - Fixes transaction leak when using pgtrigger.ignore() [Wes Kendall, 1501d7e]

    pgtrigger.ignore() would continue to ignore triggers until the end of the transaction once the context manager exited. This is now fixed. - Fixed more issues related to custom table names [Wes Kendall, a0e1f6d]

    Fixes and test cases were added for custom table names that collide with reserved words. - Wrap table names to avoid SQL command conflicts [Zac Miller, 86ee983]

    Prevents models/tables with names like Order from causing Syntax errors and add PyCharm .idea/ folder to .gitignore

Feature

  • Triggers can be specified in model Meta options [Wes Kendall, 5c1cfec]

    Triggers can now be specified with the triggers attribute of a model's Meta options. This still works alongside the old method of using pgtrigger.register.

2.4.1 (2022-02-24)

Trivial

  • Updated with the latest template, dropped 3.6 supported, added Docker-based development [Wes Kendall, 25e0f0d]

2.4.0 (2021-08-15)

Bug

  • Ensure that generated postgres IDs are lowercase [Wes Kendall, 5c12f66]

    django-pgtrigger now ensures that generated postgres IDs are lowercase. Postgres IDs are case insensitive, and it django-pgtrigger had issues dealing with names that had a mix of cases.

Feature

  • Add the "declare" portion of a trigger as a top-level attribute [Wes Kendall, cd18512]

    Previously one had to subclass a trigger and override get_declare in order to change how the "DECLARE" fragment of a trigger was rendered. Users can now provide declare to the instantiation of a trigger.

    The documentation was updated to reflect this change.

Trivial

  • Fix broken code examples in docs [Wes Kendall, 372719c]

2.3.3 (2021-08-15)

Trivial

  • Adjusted max length of trigger names to 47 characters [Wes Kendall, 528140f]
  • Updated to the latest Django app template [Wes Kendall, d2d5328]
  • Change "Delete" to "Update" in tutorial docs [Rich Rauenzahn, 2839a78]

2.3.2 (2021-05-30)

Trivial

  • Fixing tags after organization migration [Wes Kendall, 0ba84d2]

2.3.1 (2021-05-29)

Bug

  • Throw errors on invalid trigger definitions. [Wes Kendall, 28f1329]

    Previously triggers were installed with a broad try/except in order to ignore errors when installing duplicate triggers. This caused invalid triggers to not be installed with no errors thrown.

    The code was updated to catch the specific exception for duplicate triggers and allow other trigger errors to surface. A failing test case was added. - Fix for wrong argument supplied at _get_database fn call [arpit o.O, 2f7cea1]

Trivial

  • Updated with the latest django app template [Wes Kendall, 9a71227]
  • Fix incorrect name in example [Simon Willison, 069e05a]

2.2.1 (2021-02-23)

Trivial

  • Optionally change "other" DB name if set at all [Tómas Árni Jónasson, 5b24058]

2.2.0 (2021-02-09)

Feature

  • Multiple database support [Wes Kendall, b09ba73]

    Supports multiple-database functionality in all core functions and management commands. By default, all functions and management commands operate over all databases in a multi-database setup. This behavior can be overridden with the --database flag.

    When calling manage.py migrate, only the database being migrated will have relevant triggers installed. This fits into how Django supports multi-database migrations.

2.1.0 (2020-10-20)

Bug

  • Fixed possibility of duplicate trigger function names [Wes Kendall, b9b1552]

    django-pgtrigger previously enforced that no model could have the same trigger name, however, the trigger function being called is a globally unique name that needs to be checked.

    django-pgtrigger now adds a hash to the trigger function and installed trigger name based on the registered model. This prevents a global collision for trigger functions.

    Note that this change will make it appear like no triggers are installed. Upgrading to this version will involve dropping and re-creating existing triggers.

2.0.0 (2020-10-12)

Api-Break

  • Trigger management commands [Wes Kendall, be26d33]

    Adds the ability to manage triggers by name with the manage.py pgtrigger management command. This change includes the following subcommands:

    • manage.py pgtrigger ls: List all triggers, their installation status, and whether they are enabled or disabled.
    • manage.py pgtrigger install: Install triggers.
    • manage.py pgtrigger uninstall: Uninstall triggers.
    • manage.py pgtrigger enable: Enable triggers.
    • manage.py pgtrigger disable: Disable triggers.
    • manage.py pgtrigger prune: Prune triggers.

    Because of this change, names are now enforced for every trigger and must be unique for every model. Users that wish to upgrade to this version must now supply a name keyword argument to their triggers.

    Docs were updated with references to the new management commands.

1.3.0 (2020-07-23)

Feature

  • Extend the pgtrigger.SoftDelete trigger to support more field types. [Wes Kendall, 4dd8cf8]

    pgtrigger.SoftDelete takes an optional "value" argument to assign to the soft-deleted attribute upon deletion. This allows for more flexibility in soft-delete models that might, for example, set a CharField to "inactive". - pgtrigger.FSM enforces a finite state machine on a field. [Wes Kendall, bd3980e]

    The pgtrigger.FSM trigger allows a user to configure a field and a set of valid transitions for the field. An error will be raised if any transitions happen that are not part of the valid transitions list.

    The docs were updated with an example of how to use pgtrigger.FSM.

Trivial

  • Added trigger cookbook example for how to track history and model changes. [Wes Kendall, 114a70a]
  • Add "versioning" example to trigger cookbook. [Wes Kendall, 842ad5b]
  • Added trigger cookbook example of freezing a published model [Wes Kendall, 994e9da]

1.2.0 (2020-07-23)

Feature

  • Added pgtrigger.ignore for dynamically ignoring triggers. [Wes Kendall, b3557bb]

    pgtrigger.ignore can be used to ignore triggers per thread of execution. Docs were updated with examples of how to use pgtrigger.ignore and how to utilize it to create "official" interfaces. - Allow custom naming of triggers [Wes Kendall, 864d653]

    Triggers can be given a "name" attribute that is used when generating the trigger and obtaining it from the registry. This will not only make trigger management in the future easier, but it will also make it possible to dynamically ignore specific triggers registered to models.

1.1.0 (2020-07-21)

Feature

  • Added "Referencing" construct for statement-level triggers. [Wes Kendall, 20d958e]

    The pgtrigger.Referencing construct allows one to reference transition tables in statement-level triggers. - Added statement-level triggers. [Wes Kendall, c0cc365]

    django-pgtrigger now has a "level" construct for specifying row and statement-level triggers. All triggers default to being row-level triggers.

Trivial

  • Support the "INSTEAD OF" construct for views on SQL triggers. [Wes Kendall, 79f9d54]
  • Updated docs and added a quick start section [Wes Kendall, 9ce7b29]

1.0.1 (2020-06-29)

Trivial

  • Updated README and updated with the latest public django app template. [Wes Kendall, 001ef68]

1.0.0 (2020-06-27)

Api-Break

  • Initial release of django-pgtrigger. [Wes Kendall, 1f737f0]

    django-pgtrigger provides primitives for configuring Postgres triggers <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtrigger.html>__ on Django models.

    Models can be decorated with pgtrigger.register and supplied with pgtrigger.Trigger objects. These will automatically be installed after migrations. Users can use Django idioms such as Q and F objects to declare trigger conditions, alleviating the need to write raw SQL for a large amount of use cases.

    django-pgtrigger comes built with some derived triggers for expressing common patterns. For example, pgtrigger.Protect can protect operations on a model, such as deletions or updates (e.g. an append-only model). The pgtrigger.Protect trigger can even target protecting operations on specific updates of fields (e.g. don't allow updates if is_active is False on a model). Another derived trigger, pgtrigger.SoftDelete, can soft-delete models by setting a field to False when a deletion happens on the model.