Thread: Schema/Trigger help

I’m relatively new to postgres and SQL in general and need some assistance. 

We have a database split into multiple schemas, and a program that runs an SQL command (abbreviated for brevity) like:

                INSERT INTO xxx.parts_purchasing (DEALER_ID,DATE_CHANGED) VALUES (‘xxx’, ’28-Apr-2008’)

Where xxx is one of a number of possible schemas, and parts_purchasing is a table.  We appear to have a trigger on parts_purchasing like so:

CREATE OR REPLACE function fn_update_so_tran() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $trg_update_so_tran$

DECLARE

BEGIN

   IF (NEW.tran_status = 'U') OR (NEW.tran_status = 'D') THEN

      UPDATE parts_purchasing SET

         qty_received=qty_received + NEW.qty_received,

         qty_invoiced = qty_invoiced + NEW.qty_invoiced,

         amt_invoiced = amt_invoiced + NEW.amt_invoiced,

         amt_received = amt_received + NEW.amt_received

      WHERE

         dealer_id = NEW.dealer_id AND

         so_tran_address = NEW.so_tran_address AND

         this_tran_address = so_tran_address;

   END IF;

   RETURN NULL;

END;

$trg_update_so_tran$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

ALTER FUNCTION fn_update_so_tran() OWNER TO "AutoDRS";

CREATE TRIGGER trg_update_so_tran AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE on parts_purchasing FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE fn_update_so_tran();

I’ve pasted the whole thing because I don’t know how much is important.  The problem is that it seems whenever we do the INSERT, the trigger causes an error because it says parts_purchasing table doesn’t exist.  Naturally... it does exist!

I wonder if triggers aren’t schema specific, and so it’s getting the schema wrong?  But if that’s the case, I’m not sure how to fix it.  I’ve tried changing the first part of it to:

      UPDATE dealer_id.parts_purchasing SET

      UPDATE NEW.dealer_id..parts_purchasing SET

      UPDATE OPERATOR(dealer_id.+)parts_purchasing SET

      UPDATE OPERATOR(NEW.dealer_id.+)parts_purchasing SET

But none of those seem valid. 

I also thought of doing a workaround where set SET SEARCH_PATH = xxx before each INSERT.  But the problem then is ... there appears to be no way to do an UNSET SEARCH_PATH, so if a SET SEARCH_PATH failed for some reason then we’d start clobbering the wrong schema’s data.

Some advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks