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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alessandro Ipe <Alessandro.Ipe@meteo.be>
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Comments: In-reply-to Alessandro Ipe <Alessandro.Ipe@meteo.be>
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Alessandro Ipe <Alessandro.Ipe@meteo.be> writes:
> My dtrigger definition is
> CREATE TRIGGER msg_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON msg FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE msg_function();
> so it seems that it is a BEFORE trigger.

Hm, no AFTER triggers anywhere?  Are there foreign keys, perhaps?

			regards, tom lane


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