Thread: Need your help

Hi,
I need your help on something. I have to write a
trigger (in sybase) that does this: Everytime a record
gets updated it should update a column in that record
with the current date/time. I am able to do it for the
whole table, but how do I make sure the update happens
only for that record which is being updated? Please
respond.
Thanks a bunch,
Jyotsna.


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e.g.
Try:

CREATE TABLE emp (   id int4 primary key,   empname text,   salary int4,   last_date datetime,   last_user name);

CREATE FUNCTION emp_stamp () RETURNS OPAQUE AS   BEGINupdate emp set last_date=''now''::timestamp where id=NEW.id;
RETURN NEW;   END;
 
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

CREATE TRIGGER emp_stamp BEFORE UPDATE ON emp   FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE emp_stamp();    

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jyotsna Kypa wrote:

> Hi,
> I need your help on something. I have to write a
> trigger (in sybase) that does this: Everytime a record
> gets updated it should update a column in that record
> with the current date/time. I am able to do it for the
> whole table, but how do I make sure the update happens
> only for that record which is being updated? Please
> respond.
> Thanks a bunch,
> Jyotsna.
> 
> 
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Jie Liang wrote:
> e.g.
> Try:
>
> CREATE TABLE emp (
>     id int4 primary key,
>     empname text,
>     salary int4,
>     last_date datetime,
>     last_user name);
>
> CREATE FUNCTION emp_stamp () RETURNS OPAQUE AS
>     BEGIN
>    update emp set last_date=''now''::timestamp where id=NEW.id;
>         RETURN NEW;
>     END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> CREATE TRIGGER emp_stamp BEFORE UPDATE ON emp
>     FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE emp_stamp();
   Not  sure  if it works this way at all, but the update on emp   table is definitely a wasted scan. And  the
'now'::timestamp  will  be  evaluated at the first function call - never again;   not sure if he wanted that behaviour
either.
       CREATE FUNCTION emp_stamp () RETURNS opaque AS '       BEGIN           new.last_date := now();           RETURN
new;      END;'       LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
 
   Is the correct trigger for this purpose.


Jan

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