Re: Conditional rule? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Ooops... seems I had a rule tied to my news table which caused the
malfunction, sorry if I wasted anyone's time :(

André Næss


----- Original Message -----
From: "André Næss" <andre.nass@student.uib.no>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Conditional rule?


> Hm... I'm a true newbie when it comes to plpgsql and triggers, but I
looked
> through some texts and managed to come up with the following rather odd
(to
> me at least) behaviour:
>
> *****
>
> create table news (
>   id serial,
>   title varchar(50),
>   time timestamp
> )
>
> create table news_un (
>   news_id int
> )
>
>         Table "news_un"
>  Attribute |  Type   | Modifier
> -----------+---------+----------
>  news_id   | integer |
>
> create function setpublish() returns opaque as '
>   begin
>     insert into news_un select news_id_seq.last_value where new.time is
not
> null;
>     return null;
>   end;
>   '
>   language 'plpgsql';
>
> create trigger newstrigger after insert on news for each row execute
> procedure setpublish();
>
> *****
> Attempting to do an insert to news:
>
> testruledb=# insert into news (title, time) values('Test', now());
> INSERT 24028 1
> testruledb=# select * from news; select * from news_un;
>  id | title |          time
> ----+-------+------------------------
>  48 | Test  | 2000-07-27 19:20:24+02
> (1 row)
>
>  news_id
> ---------
>       47
>       48
> (2 rows)
>
> I also tried setting time to null:
>
> testruledb=# insert into news (title) values('Test2');
> INSERT 24031 1
> testruledb=# select * from news; select * from news_un;
>  id | title | time
> ----+-------+------
>  50 | Test2 |
> (1 row)
>
>  news_id
> ---------
>       49
> (1 row)
>
> There's obviously something about triggers and functions I don't
understand,
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> André Næss
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > "André Næss" <andre.nass@student.uib.no> writes:
> > > I wish to make rule looking something like this:
> > > create rule newsrule as
> > >   on insert to news do
> > >     if new.publishtime is not null insert into news_unpublished
> > > values(new.id);
> >
> > > I.e. "On an insert to news, if new.publish is not null, insert the new
> > > post's id into news_unpublished.
> >
> > What you want here is a trigger, not a rule.  The closest you could come
> > with a rule is to copy *all* unpublished ids into news_unpublished each
> > time something got inserted into news.  There are applications for that
> > sort of thing, but this ain't it.  See the trigger examples in the
> > plpgsql or pltcl sections of the manual.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
>
>
>