Re: Metadata from NEW and OLD constructs? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Metadata from NEW and OLD constructs?
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Msg-id 20061212105032.GB28714@svana.org
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In response to Metadata from NEW and OLD constructs?  ("Lenorovitz, Joel" <Joel.Lenorovitz@usap.gov>)
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:19:33PM -0700, Lenorovitz, Joel wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to get any of the metadata from the NEW
> and OLD constructs in a trigger or view rule?  Specifically, I'd like to
> get the column name or identifier anywhere the new record differs from
> the old record (i.e. NEW.column_X <> OLD.column_X).  Any advice would be
> greatly appreciated.

If your trigger is written in C, definitly. If the trigger is in
pl/pgsql, no. For other languages I don't know. which language are you
using?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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