| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Auto-updated fields |
| Date: | 2009-01-03 00:14:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20090103001439.GA11683@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008 00:27:10 Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> > David Fetter wrote:
Ref: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00198.php
> > > 1. Create a generic (possibly overloaded) trigger function, bundled
> > > with PostgreSQL, which sets a field to some value. For example, a
> > > timestamptz version might set the field to now().
> > Having the pre defined triggers at hand could be useful, especially
> > for people not writing triggers so often to get used to it but I'm
> > really not happy with the idea of magic preprocessing.
> I have a generic version of this in pagila.
Now that we have a specific file in core for generic triggers (right now with a
single one), how about adding this one to it?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
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