Re: Question regarding triggers

Why dont you try to write your trigger in C?

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Dmitri Fuerle wrote:

>
> I'm writing a trigger but running into problems. My problem is that I can not determine anyway to tell what fields are in the *new* record. Without knowing what fields are there I get runtime errors if that's not what is being updated example:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION "public"."check_shipment" () RETURNS trigger AS'
> begin
> If new.shipment_type_id = 4 then
> --do something
> end if;
> return new;
> end;
>
> in the above example everything works if shipment_type_id is being updated. If it is not I will receive a run-time error because shipment_type_id is not part of the record new.
>
> Please help,
> Dmitri
>
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