Re: General Trigger Functions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: General Trigger Functions
Date
Msg-id 200007252054.WAA21428@hot.jw.home
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In response to General Trigger Functions  (mjp@ornl.gov)
List pgsql-general
mjp@ornl.gov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to write a "generic" trigger function in postgres
> that can loop thru a table's cloumns (using TG_RELNAME)
> and perform certain activities based on, say, certain column-types?
> In other words, is it possible to assign OLD.<column_name>
> and NEW.<column_name> to a variable inside triggers?

    PL/pgSQL  has  the  pseudo  type RECORD. And at least it'd be
    possible with PL/Tcl.


Jan

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