Re: Creating Functions & Triggers

From: Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>
To: Kevin Lohka <klohka(at)aboutfacedata(dot)ab(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Creating Functions & Triggers
Date: 2004-03-21 09:37:53
Message-ID: 1079861873.2085.1.camel@yarrow.bertheau.de
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В Сбт, 20.03.2004, в 23:33, Kevin Lohka пишет:
> Hello everyone, I'm new to creating functions & triggers on postgresql
> and am having trouble creating a trigger to update a record with the
> modification date and the current user.
>
> My code is below, but doesn't work. It hangs psql when I attempt to
> modify the record. The function and trigger are created successfully.
>
> CREATE FUNCTION email_mod_date() RETURNS OPAQUE AS '
> BEGIN
> UPDATE email SET m_date = current_date, m_by_user =
> current_user
> WHERE id = NEW.id;
>
> RETURN NULL;
> END;
> 'LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
>
>
> CREATE TRIGGER email_mod_date
> AFTER UPDATE
> ON email
> FOR EACH ROW
> EXECUTE PROCEDURE email_mod_date();

The trigger is probably recursively being called.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/triggers.html#TRIGGER-DEFINITION

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Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>

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