On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:01:32PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:46:54PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:34:55PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> >
> > > OLD and NEW don't make sense in statement-level triggers because
> > > the statement could affect many rows. Use FOR EACH ROW if you need
> > > to access the row values.
> >
> > IMHO they do make sense. It's just that they haven't been implemented.
>
> What do you have in mind? What would OLD and NEW refer to in
> statements that affect multiple rows? Are you thinking of a way
> to refer to all of the old and new rows?
Yes, exactly that. They would be arrays of tuples (or whatever they are
called in Python -- I'm not thinking specifically in Python.)
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