From: Adam H. Pendleton <apendleton@vgsinc.com>
To: pgsql-sql@hub.org
Subject: Trigger question
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:38:29 -0400
Message-ID: <005201be9b0b$ed17ad50$bdd0be80@belvoir.army.mil> (raw)
I have a dilema, and I'm not sure what the best way to go about solving it
is. I have a table called employee_master, and a table called
employee_payroll. The primary key for both tables is the employee name. It
would be easy for me to set up a trigger that checked the master table when
inserting into the payroll table to make sure the employee exists. My
problem is this: The employee names are stored Last, First in both tables.
The data file I am parsing to insert into the payroll table contains just
the last name. Now I can make a trigger that uses a 'like' and checks the
employees division as well to ensure that they are in the employee_master,
but how do I update with just the last name? I don't want to insert, I need
to be able to update the data in the row.
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