Re: Triggers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Mair
Subject Re: Triggers
Date
Msg-id 1160923702.16849.2.camel@ultra.home.lan
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In response to Triggers  ("Germán Hüttemann Arza" <ghuttemann@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Triggers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
> Why you should write a function first and then the trigger, which must
> call that function?
>
> What are the advantages/disadvantages of that? Where can I find more
> information?

The PG way seems very natural to me:
you can write functions that do something and then have many triggers
call that same function.

Also there's not just PL/PGSQL: you might want
to define a function in C or Perl and then have a trigger call it.

Bye, Chris.


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