When creating the trigger you need to specify BEFORE UPDATE rather than BEFORE INSERT.
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From: Joseph Shraibman [SMTP:jks@selectacast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:56 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: 'record old is unassigned yet' when using trigger in 7.1.1
I have a function used in a trigger that looks like this:
begin IF OLD.status <> NEW.status THEN NEW.statchangedate = CURRENT_DATE; END IF;return NEW;end;
The problem is when a new row is inserted I get this error message:
ERROR: record old is unassigned yet
... and the insert fails.
It doesn't matter if the trigger is before or after.
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