Re: Conditional rule?

From: "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com>
To: "Andr Nss" <andre(dot)nass(at)student(dot)uib(dot)no>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Conditional rule?
Date: 2000-07-27 18:55:20
Message-ID: 00072715035004.09700@comptechnews
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Andr Nss wrote:
> I've been looking through the material I have on postgreSQL, but can't seem
> to find an answer to my problem. Very simplied, my tables are something like
> this:
>
> create table news (
> id serial,
> story text,
> publishtime timestamp
> )
>
> create table news_unpublished (
> news_id
> )
>
> I wish to make rule looking something like this:
> create rule newsrule as
> on insert to news do
> if new.publishtime is not null insert into news_unpublished
> values(new.id);
>
> I.e. "On an insert to news, if new.publish is not null, insert the new
> post's id into news_unpublished.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andr Nss

I think a PL/pgSQL trigger will work:

-- Load the PGSQL procedural language
-- This could also be done with the createlang script/program.
-- See man createlang.
CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql_call_handler()
RETURNS OPAQUE AS '/usr/local/pgsql/lib/plpgsql.so'
LANGUAGE 'C';
CREATE TRUSTED PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
HANDLER plpgsql_call_handler
LANCOMPILER 'PL/pgSQL';

CREATE FUNCTION news_trigproc RETURNS OPAQUE AS '
IF TG_OP = ''INSERT'' THEN
-- unnessary IF above since this is always called on insert only
-- but shows how can detect which OP called the trigger when
-- you make a trigger handle more than just INSERT
IF NEW.publishtime NOTNULL THEN
INSERT INTO news_unpublished VALUES (NEW.id);
END IF;
RETURN NEW;
END IF;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

CREATE TRIGGER newstrigger
AFTER INSERT ON news FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE news_trigproc();

--
- Robert

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