On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:05:20PM -0400, Mark Steben wrote:
> We have 'table a' which has defined to it an 'after insert or update'
> trigger function
>
> That inserts to 'table b', obviously for every update or insert of table a.
> The challenge
>
> I have now is to update a new date column on 'table a' with a value coming
> out of
>
> Another inhouse written function within the trigger function. But I cannot
> use the UPDATE
>
> statement within the update trigger function for fear of an infinite loop.
>
> All I need to do is to populate the date field of the row that is currently
> being processed by the trigger function.
>
> Is there a command within plpgsql that can help me with this?
See NEW on
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-trigger.html
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