need trigger help

From: "Mag Gam" <magawake(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: need trigger help
Date: 2007-11-20 15:59:19
Message-ID: 1cbd6f830711200759s75747c82ud3fbad7f67c23432@mail.gmail.com
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Hi All,

I need some trigger help. I am very new to SQL, so please bare with me.

I have a table:

CREATE TABLE table (
id integer,
name text,
);

Basically, I have values going into name.

The values that go into name are like this (being generated by a script),
without the quotes:
" name1"
"name2"
" name3"
" name4"
"name5 "

I want to write a trigger, for UPDATE/INSERT, do a ltrim and rtrim() of name
value. I want to remove all the beginning and ending blank spaces.

I want name to be like this:
"name1"
"name2"
"name3"
"name4"
"name5"

Is that possible?

TIA

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