Ok, I think I am starting to put two-and-two together.... based on your
thread and Ted's thread, I just realized that OLD. and NEW. are keywords
in postgres.
Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:35, Laura McCord
> <mccordl@southwestern.edu> wrote:
>
>> Here is a question that I am stumped on:
>>
>> Does postgres even recognize last_inserted() as mysql does? I notice
>> that the function fails on that line.
>>
>>
>
> Not, that's just a MySQL function. You could, however, look for the
> last value of the sequence generator for the table's primary key, which
> should be (but may not always be) equivalent.
>
> However, you are doing far more work than necessary getting the
> inserted/updated data; you can just access it through the OLD. and NEW.
> records already provided to the trigger.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-trigger.html
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