Hi,
I'm a complete newbie to pl/pgsql and wrote the following trigger function
that's supposed to create a table when a certain row is inserted into
another table:
When I run
insert into trigtest values ('wei', 'int4', 'int5');
I get the error of:
ERROR: syntax error at or near ";" at character 32
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "trigtest_test1" line 26 at execute statement
I know this is a very naive question, any hint or direction would be highly
appreciated.
table definition:
CREATE TABLE public.trigtest
(
tablename text NOT NULL,
arg1 text NOT NULL,
arg2 text NOT NULL
) WITHOUT OIDS;
trigger definition:
CREATE TRIGGER trigtest_test1
BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE
ON public.trigtest
FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.trigtest_test1();
trigger function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigtest_test1() RETURNS trigger AS '
DECLARE
my_query varchar(4000);
BEGIN
-- check if the arguments are NULL
IF NEW.tablename IS NULL THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION ''tablename cannot be null'';
END IF;
IF NEW.arg1 IS NULL THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION ''arg1 cannot be null'', NEW.tablename;
END IF;
IF NEW.arg2 IS NULL THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION ''arg2 cannot be null'', NEW.tablename;
END IF;
--create a table with the name as NEW.tablename, and the first
column
--called arg1 and the type to be the value of NEW.arg1
my_query := ''create table ''
||quote_ident(NEW.tablename)
||'' ( ''
||quote_ident(NEW.arg1)
||'', arg1 );'';
-- Only when NEW.arg1 is int4, we execute the create
IF (NEW.arg1 = ''int4'') THEN
EXECUTE my_query;
END IF;
RETURN NEW;
END;
' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
I don't know what I did wrong here. Also how can I find out what query is
actually passed on to postgresql? I turned on the logging in pgadmin III at
"Debug".
