Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS
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Msg-id 20060522193334.GI64371@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:11:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:41:59AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > > CREATE TRIGGER name { BEFORE | AFTER } { event [ OR ... ] }
> > > >     ON table FOR EACH STATEMENT
> > > >     EXECUTE PROCEDURE funcname ( arguments )
> > >  
> > > And that doesn't give you any information on the rows that were
> > > modified. Other RDBMSes will provide a NEW rowset and an OLD rowset that
> > > you can select from inside the trigger as if they were real tables.
> > 
> > Is this on the TODO list? It doesn't seem too difficult to create a
> > tuplestore and store the NEW and OLD tuples there and pass the whole
> > set to the trigger.
> 
> TODO has:
> 
>     * Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows

No wonder I missed it, it's under the RI section. :)

Actually, it looks like there's a bunch of things in there that are
generic trigger issues and not really RI issues. And some of those are
exact duplicates of the triggers section... wee!
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