Re: A trigger that acts on a column with a given column name

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: BigSmoke <bigsmoke(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A trigger that acts on a column with a given column name
Date: 2005-07-07 21:03:03
Message-ID: 20050707210303.GA28281@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:28:23PM +0200, BigSmoke wrote:
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> In a trigger function, I'm trying to refer to a column given by an argument
> to the trigger function.

This comes up frequently -- search the archives for past discussion.
The usual answer is to write the function in a language like PL/Perl,
PL/Tcl, or PL/Python. See the PL/Tcl documentation for an example:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/pltcl-trigger.html

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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