From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@it-management.at>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: column: on update update?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:49:03 +0200
Message-ID: <200805071649.03336@zmi.at> (raw)
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On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 Richard Broersma wrote:
> Well you have two options. The perferred method would be to have
> your application include an update to your lastupdate field whenever
> anyother rows are updated.
But as we speak about SpamAssassin, an external project, I do not want
to patch every new version that comes out. Maybe they include it once,
but it isn't currently so I need the db do it.
> the other option is to add an after update trigger, and manually set
> lastupdate then.
Would that be correct? I never did it and looked purely into docs:
CREATE FUNCTION awlupdate()
AS 'UPDATE awl SET lastupdate=CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;'
LANGUAGE SQL;
CREATE TRIGGER awlupdate AFTER UPDATE ON awl FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE awlupdate();
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