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From Mario Soto Cordones
Subject Re: Immutable attributes?
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In response to Immutable attributes?  (Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>)
Responses Re: Immutable attributes?  (Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>)
Re: Immutable attributes?  (Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz>)
Re: Immutable attributes? Correction  (Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz>)
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Hi for all ,  plese a question ,this function can be write in pl/pgsql ???????

thank for all

2005/4/24, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>:
> To protect the database from programming errors (there is a team
> working on the project and some beginners may produce bugs), I would
> like to flag some attributes as immutable, meaning non modifiable in
> an UPDATE. (Typical examples are ID or creation time.)
>
> Currently, I use triggers:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION check_immutable() RETURNS TRIGGER
>     AS 'BEGIN
>               IF NEW.id != OLD.id OR NEW.created != OLD.created THEN
>                    RAISE EXCEPTION ''Change not allowed in that table'';
>               END IF;
>               RETURN NEW;
>         END;'
>     LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;
>
> CREATE TRIGGER check_immutable
>    BEFORE UPDATE ON MyTable
>    FOR EACH ROW
>    EXECUTE PROCEDURE check_immutable();
>
> It is quite painful, since I need a function (with the list of
> immutable attributes) and a trigger per table. If I INHERITS from a
> table, triggers on the parent table are not called if I update the
> child table.
>
> Is there a better way? I do not find a constraint IMMUTABLE for
> attributes.
>
> PostgreSQL 7.4, switching to 8.0 would be difficult.
>
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cordialmente,

Ing. Mario Soto Cordones

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