On 01/22/2014 08:26 AM, Aaron Burnett wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I *think* there¹s a way to accomplish what I want, but it is eluding me at
> this time. Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>
> What I am trying to accomplish is that when a member deactivates their
> account through the UI, my trigger will call a function that deletes or
> archives their data. The issue being that we don¹t want the UI to have to
> wait for this process because of the huge amount of data and tables that
> the queries will have to go through, so we are avoiding doing it
> programatically through the UI and I want it to happen in the background.
>
> The problem is this (and I may just not be thinking clearly): Everything
> is tied back to the member¹s ID which is the constant throughout the
> tables that I will need to manipulate. My trigger will call the (to be
> written) function that will do all the heavy lifting when the
> active_status changes from Œa¹ to Œx¹, but I somehow need to get the ID of
> that member and pass it on to the function so it can then do all that it
> needs to.
>
> For simplicity, the member table is just a few columns (id, active_status,
> name). How would I grab the ID from that table the moment the trigger
> fires to be able to pass it to my function?
> I hope that¹s clear.
So how about an ON UPDATE TRIGGER on the member table that monitors the
active_status. When it changes grab the id for that row and go from
there. You did not say what pl language you are using so the details
will depend on that.
>
> Thanking you in advance for any help.
>
> Aaron
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