Re: Changes to functions and triggers

Thus spake Thomas Lockhart
> > This no longer works. I looked and the docs and it seems that this
> > should work instead.
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION make_date(date, int, int, int)
> > RETURNS opaque
> > AS '/usr/pgsql/modules/make_date.so'
> > LANGUAGE 'c';
> > CREATE TRIGGER make_edate
> > BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON bgroup
> > FOR EACH ROW
> > EXECUTE PROCEDURE make_date('edate', 'aniv', 'emon', 'eyear');
>
> What if you leave out the quotes on the last line above, so the column
> names are actually visible? It looks like the example in the docs might
> be a poor choice since the function is intended to manipulate columns,
> so the text representation of the column name is being passed in.
>
> Don't know if that is the source of your trouble though...

Nope. I added that after reading the web page but without them it still
has the problem.

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