Re: Auto-updated fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Auto-updated fields
Date
Msg-id 20090103001439.GA11683@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Auto-updated fields  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: Auto-updated fields  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008 00:27:10 Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> > David Fetter wrote:

Ref: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00198.php

> > > 1.  Create a generic (possibly overloaded) trigger function, bundled
> > > with PostgreSQL, which sets a field to some value.  For example, a
> > > timestamptz version might set the field to now().

> > Having the pre defined triggers at hand could be useful, especially
> > for people not writing triggers so often to get used to it but I'm
> > really not happy with the idea of magic preprocessing.

> I have a generic version of this in pagila. 

Now that we have a specific file in core for generic triggers (right now with a
single one), how about adding this one to it?

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Alvaro Herrera                               http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
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