Temporarily Disable Triggers

In general, you are always going to want your triggers to fire. That's why they are there. Though special circumstances may arise where you need to temporarily disable them. In postgres, you can use

> set session_replication_role = 'replica';
SET

By changing the replication role from origin to replica you are essentially disabling all non-replica triggers across the database (for that session). When you are done, you can simply set the replication role back so that normal trigger behavior can resume

> set session_replication_role = 'origin';
SET

A more direct and fine-grained approach to disabling triggers is to use an alter table command that targets a specific trigger.

h/t Jack Christensen