Re: Generic triggers ?

From: "Andy Dale" <andy(dot)dale(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Generic triggers ?
Date: 2007-04-24 17:43:03
Message-ID: faa313130704241043mb47c5barb76c90d518740c4f@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks for the quick response, i think will try it with python or perl.

Cheers,

Andy

On 24/04/07, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Andy Dale wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to setup a simple "generic" type trigger. What a mean by
> generic
> > is that i don't want to hardcode the
> > NEW.<column> or OLD.<column> calls, i searched for a way to loop over
> > the NEW/OLD rowtypes but could not figure out how it should be done.
>
> Don't use plpgsql - that's the secret. Try pltcl or plperl or similar.
> PL/pgsql is a bit too "statically typed" for it.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>

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