From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: update trigger not working |
Date: | 2005-10-20 02:52:33 |
Message-ID: | 1129776753.19925.49.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 19:26 -0700, CSN wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a trigger that simply updates a
> field's corresponding timestamp to now() whenever the
> field is updated. But it's not working. Trying to
> debug, I commented out the inner IF and END and the
> log seemed to indicate infinite recursion occurred.
Yes. On update, you are updating again...for ever. What you need to do
is to modify the NEW record in a BEFORE trigger.
> CREATE or REPLACE function update_ts() returns trigger
> as $end$
>
> BEGIN
>
> IF (TG_OP='UPDATE') THEN
>
> IF (OLD.stuff != NEW.stuff) THEN
> UPDATE table1
> set stuff_ts=now()
> where id=NEW.id;
Instead of this, just do:
NEW.stuff_ts = now();
> END IF;
>
> END IF;
>
> RETURN NULL;
RETURN NEW;
>
> END;
>
> $end$ language plpgsql;
>
> CREATE TRIGGER update_ts AFTER UPDATE ON table1 FOR
and make this a BEFORE trigger
> EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE update_ts();
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