Re: insert rule doesn't see id field

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:54:04PM -0000, dev(at)archonet(dot)com wrote:

> Sounds similar to the plpgsql example at:
>
> http://www.archonet.com/pgdocs/lock-field.html
>
> which silently discards changes. It's trivial (apart from quoting issues)
> to write a trigger generator to customise the above in plpgsql (see the
> Cookbook on techdocs.postgresql.org for examples)

Ah - I wish I saw that earlier. Thanks for pointer. OTOH, I learned
something...

FWIW (probably just a good laugh):

#include "executor/spi.h" /* this is what you need to work with SPI */
#include "commands/trigger.h" /* and triggers */
#include <ctype.h> /* tolower () */
#include <stdlib.h>

extern Datum noupcols (PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);

/*
noupcols () -- revoke permission on column(s)

e.g.

CREATE FUNCTION noupcols ()
RETURNS opaque
AS '/usr/lib/postgresql/lib/noupcols.so'
LANGUAGE 'C';

CREATE TRIGGER person_noupcols
BEFORE UPDATE ON person
FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE noupcols( 'name_last', 'id' );

Based on code from contrib/noup.c

The approach adopted here is to set the values of all of the columns
specified by noupcols to their old values.
*/

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 (noupcols);

Datum
noupcols (PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
TriggerData *trigdata = (TriggerData *) fcinfo->context;
Trigger *trigger; /* to get trigger name */
Relation rel; /* triggered relation */
char **args; /* arguments: column names */
int ncols; /* # of args specified in CREATE TRIGGER */
int *colindices; /* array of column indices to modify */
Datum *oldcolvals; /* old column values */
HeapTuple oldtuple = NULL; /* tuple before being modified */
HeapTuple newtuple = NULL; /* new tuple after user-specified update */
HeapTuple newnewtuple = NULL; /* tuple to return, after restoring newtuple's protected columns to their old values */
TupleDesc tupdesc; /* tuple description */
bool isnull; /* to know is some column NULL or not */
int ret;
int i;

if (!CALLED_AS_TRIGGER (fcinfo))
elog(ERROR, "noup: not fired by trigger manager");

if (TRIGGER_FIRED_FOR_STATEMENT (trigdata->tg_event))
elog (ERROR, "noup: can't process STATEMENT events");

if (TRIGGER_FIRED_BY_INSERT (trigdata->tg_event))
elog (ERROR, "noup: can't process INSERT events");

else if (TRIGGER_FIRED_BY_DELETE(trigdata->tg_event))
elog (ERROR, "noup: can't process DELETE events");

oldtuple = trigdata->tg_trigtuple;
newtuple = trigdata->tg_newtuple;

trigger = trigdata->tg_trigger;
rel = trigdata->tg_relation;

tupdesc = rel->rd_att;

ncols = trigger->tgnargs;
args = trigger->tgargs;

colindices = (int *) malloc (ncols * sizeof (int));

/* Connect to SPI manager */
if ((ret = SPI_connect()) < 0)
elog (ERROR, "noupcol: SPI_connect returned %d", ret);

/* Allocate space to place column values */
oldcolvals = (Datum*) palloc (ncols * sizeof (Datum));

/* For each column ... */
for (i = 0; i < ncols; i++)
{
/* get index of column in tuple */
colindices[i] = SPI_fnumber (tupdesc, args[i]);

/* Bad guys may give us un-existing column in CREATE TRIGGER */
if (colindices < 0)
{
elog (ERROR, "noupcols: there is no attribute %s in relation %s",
args[i],
SPI_getrelname (rel));
pfree (oldcolvals);
free (colindices);
SPI_finish ();
return PointerGetDatum (NULL);
}

/* Get previous value of column */
oldcolvals[i] = SPI_getbinval (oldtuple, tupdesc, colindices[i], &isnull);
}

/* Restore protected columns to their old values */
newnewtuple = SPI_modifytuple (rel, newtuple, ncols, colindices, oldcolvals, NULL);

pfree (oldcolvals);
free (colindices);
SPI_finish ();

if (SPI_result == SPI_ERROR_ARGUMENT) {
elog (ERROR, "noupcols: bad argument to SPI_modifytuple\n");
return PointerGetDatum (NULL);
}

if (SPI_result == SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE) {
elog (ERROR, "noupcols: bad attribute value passed to SPI_modifytuple\n");
return PointerGetDatum (NULL);
}

return PointerGetDatum (newnewtuple);
}

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