Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?)

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:41:59AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > CREATE TRIGGER name { BEFORE | AFTER } { event [ OR ... ] }
> > > ON table FOR EACH STATEMENT
> > > EXECUTE PROCEDURE funcname ( arguments )
> >
> > And that doesn't give you any information on the rows that were
> > modified. Other RDBMSes will provide a NEW rowset and an OLD rowset that
> > you can select from inside the trigger as if they were real tables.
>
> Is this on the TODO list? It doesn't seem too difficult to create a
> tuplestore and store the NEW and OLD tuples there and pass the whole
> set to the trigger.

OTOH it would be nice to be able to save only the TIDs of the tuples,
not the tuples themselves ... maybe create a "TIDstore"?

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