Re: Trigger function that works with both updates and deletes?

From: novnov <novnovice(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Trigger function that works with both updates and deletes?
Date: 2007-06-19 06:30:07
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Perfect, thanks

Michael Fuhr wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:07:37PM -0700, novnov wrote:
>> First, when a record is being deleted, OLD refers to the rec just deleted
>> (or about to be deleted)?
>
> Correct.
>
>> Second, while I could write two trigger functions, one dealing with
>> add/update, the other with deletes, it's probably neater to have a single
>> trigger function and have it discriminate "am I being called for a
>> delete,
>> or an add/update?" I don't know how to determine the type record change.
>
> In PL/pgSQL you can use TG_OP. See "Trigger Procedures" in the
> documentation:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-trigger.html
>
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