Prevent recursive trigger in PostgreSQL

Question

How to prevent recursive execution of trigger? Let\'s say I want to construct a \"tree-able\" description on chart of account. So what I do is when a new record is inserted

Answer 1

This is what I do in PostgreSQL 9.2, although I must admit I did not find this approach documented. There is a function pg_trigger_depth() documented here, which I use to differentiate between original and nested calls in the trigger.

CREATE TRIGGER trg_taxonomic_positions
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OF taxonomic_position
ON taxon_concepts
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (pg_trigger_depth() = 0)
EXECUTE PROCEDURE trg_taxonomic_positions()