Re: Modification times in records?

On 7 Dec 2000, at 1:59, Adam Haberlach wrote:

> I'm looking for a generalized way to set a field to 'now'
> whenever a record is updated.
>
> First, I started creating a plpgsql function for each table that
> I needed this for, and then using a trigger.
>
> Later, I realized that the functions were all identical, so I
> created one function, which lukily was always updating a field
> with the same name.
>
> I'm looking for a way to specify a field name when I create the
> trigger, so I can have one function and assign it to any table
> with any timestamp field and have it update automagically.
> I can't seem to get a parameter into the function. Any ideas?

There's stuff in contrib/spi that handles this (IIRC, a C function
called moddatetime or something like that.) It allows you to specify
a fieldname of the datetime field, I believe.

Plus, this should be (slightly?) faster that a PLSQL routine.

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