On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:45:32PM +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote:
>
> CREATE TRIGGER "updateContact" AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE
> ON FOR EACH ROW
> EXECUTE PROCEDURE "contacts"."addContactField"();
Please show the actual commands that you're running; the above fails
with a syntax error because it's missing a table name. Is this
trigger on contacts.person?
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "contacts"."addContactField" () RETURNS
> trigger AS
> $body$
> begin
> update contacts.person
> set "contact" = new.firstname
> where person."primary" = new."primary";
> return null;
> end;
> $body$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE CALLED ON NULL INPUT SECURITY INVOKER;
As Tom mentioned, if you want to modify the record being inserted
then simply assign a value to one of NEW's columns and have the
function return NEW. In such a case the function will need to be
called in a BEFORE trigger. See "Triggers" and "Trigger Procedures"
in the documentation for more information:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/triggers.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/plpgsql-trigger.html
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Michael Fuhr