Ignoring Execution

pgtrigger.ignore is a decorator and context manager that temporarily ignores triggers for a single thread of execution. Here we ignore deletion protection:

class CannotDelete(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        triggers = [
            pgtrigger.Protect(name="protect_deletes", operation=pgtrigger.Delete)
        ]


# Bypass deletion protection
with pgtrigger.ignore("my_app.CannotDelete:protect_deletes"):
    CannotDelete.objects.all().delete()

As shown above, pgtrigger.ignore takes a trigger URI that is formatted as {app_label}.{model_name}:{trigger_name}. Multiple trigger URIs can be given to pgtrigger.ignore, and pgtrigger.ignore can be nested. If no trigger URIs are provided to pgtrigger.ignore, all triggers are ignored.

Run python manage.py pgtrigger ls to see the URIs of all triggers.

Note

Remember, pgtrigger.ignore ignores the execution of a trigger on a per-thread basis. This is very different from disabling a trigger or uninstalling a trigger globally. See the Advanced Installation section for more details on managing the installation of triggers.