Re: triggers and functions in pgsql 7.0.2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Mascari
Subject Re: triggers and functions in pgsql 7.0.2
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Msg-id 39468422.646F4E45@mascari.com
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In response to triggers and functions in pgsql 7.0.2  (Marc Britten <mbritten@cybernet-usa.com>)
List pgsql-general
Marc Britten wrote:
>
> I'm going through your docs trying to create a function and a trigger that
> calls said function, what I've gotten so far is
>
> CREATE FUNCTION create_count_cache()
>        RETURNS opaque AS
>        '
>          BEGIN;
>          DELETE FROM SnipCount;
>          INSERT INTO SnipCount SELECT LangID, COUNT(LangID) AS CNT FROM
> snippet GROUP BY LangID;
>          COMMIT;
>        '
>        LANGUAGE 'sql';
>
> CREATE TRIGGER count_change
>        AFTER DELETE OR INSERT ON snippet FOR EACH ROW
>        EXECUTE PROCEDURE create_count_cache();
>
> however LANGUAGE sql cannot return opaque and plpgsql is not a known lang
> type.
>
> it seems that all your docs are a bit out of date, can you give me some help
> please?
>
> marc britten

The link below might help:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/programmer/xplang.htm#XPLANG-TITLE

Hope that helps,

Mike Mascari

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