Re: triggers and plpgsql question

--On mercredi 28 août 2002 08:42 +0200 Mathieu Arnold <mat(at)mat(dot)cc> wrote:

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> --On mardi 27 août 2002 15:38 -0700 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Mathieu,
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>>> The thing I need, is to be able to know what does NEW contains, and I
>>> have not found out any mean to do so. If it's not possible to do so,
>>> I'll write a function per table, but for the beauty of all this, I would
>>> have liked to do it the way above.
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>> You can't do this in PL/pgSQL. See the online documentation on writing
>> triggers in C; that is the only way to get what you want.
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> So, if I want to avoid C, I'll have to write a function per table. I'll
> have a look at SPI (as I believe after a short readout of the doc, I'll
> need it).

After a few hours of work, here is what I did. What it does is to log
everything that gets inserted, deleted or updated into a table. I post it
here because I believe that someone else might be interested.

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Mathieu Arnold