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From: veem v <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Does trigger only accept functions?
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:47:14 +0530
Message-ID: <CAB+=1TWT1_kKdBtuWvLBKJ1hkjxsaRZfMQADQU7bsVtat9q-LA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi, It's version 15.4 of postgres. We have a requirement to have the audit
enabled for the delete queries on the base table. And for that we are
planning to have one audit table created for each base table and have
triggers on each of the base tables to be fired on delete which will insert
records into the audit table.

But I see the trigger is not accepting the insert query directly, rather
it's asking to call a function and to put the business logic inside that
function, something as below. So does that mean, to enable audit on the ~50
base table ,  we will have ~50 functions to be created and also they need
to be called from ~50 triggers? or any other better approach exists to
handle this?

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION log_deletes_source_table()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO source_table_delete_history (record_id, delete_timestamp,
col1, col2,col3)
    VALUES (OLD.id, current_timestamp, old.col1,old.col2,old.col3);
    RETURN OLD;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

-- Trigger for deletes
CREATE TRIGGER before_delete
BEFORE DELETE ON source_table
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION  log_deletes_source_table  ();

Regards
Veem

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