Re: Trigger Procedure Error: NEW used in query that is not in a rule

NEW is only plpgsql variable. It isn't visible on SQL level. You
cannot use new.*, you can:

execute 'INSERT ...' || 'VALUES(' || new.a || ',' || new.b ....

regards
Pavel

2007/8/11, Javier Fonseca V. <fonsecajavier(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm doing a Trigger Procedure in pl/pgSQL. It makes some kind of auditing.
>
> I think that it's working alright except for the next line:
>
> EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || quote_ident(somedynamictablename)
> || ' SELECT new.*';
>
> PostgreSQL keeps telling me: "ERROR: NEW used in query that is not in a
> rule". I think that this NEW problem is because of the scope of the EXECUTE
> statement (outside the scope of the trigger), so it doesn't recognize the
> NEW record.
>
> Maybe I could fix it concatenating column names and the 'new' values but I
> want to do my trigger as flexible as possible (I have several tables to
> audit).
>
> Somebody has any suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Javier