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From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?QW5kcukgTuZzcw==?=" <andre.nass@student.uib.no>
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Subject: Re: Conditional rule? 
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:21:55 +0200
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Hm... I'm a true newbie when it comes to plpgsql and triggers, but I looked
through some texts and managed to come up with the following rather odd (to
me at least) behaviour:

*****

create table news (
  id serial,
  title varchar(50),
  time timestamp
)

create table news_un (
  news_id int
)

        Table "news_un"
 Attribute |  Type   | Modifier
-----------+---------+----------
 news_id   | integer |

create function setpublish() returns opaque as '
  begin
    insert into news_un select news_id_seq.last_value where new.time is not
null;
    return null;
  end;
  '
  language 'plpgsql';

create trigger newstrigger after insert on news for each row execute
procedure setpublish();

*****
Attempting to do an insert to news:

testruledb=# insert into news (title, time) values('Test', now());
INSERT 24028 1
testruledb=# select * from news; select * from news_un;
 id | title |          time
----+-------+------------------------
 48 | Test  | 2000-07-27 19:20:24+02
(1 row)

 news_id
---------
      47
      48
(2 rows)

I also tried setting time to null:

testruledb=# insert into news (title) values('Test2');
INSERT 24031 1
testruledb=# select * from news; select * from news_un;
 id | title | time
----+-------+------
 50 | Test2 |
(1 row)

 news_id
---------
      49
(1 row)

There's obviously something about triggers and functions I don't understand,
any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

André Næss


----- Original Message -----
> "=?iso-8859-1?B?QW5kcukgTuZzcw==?=" <andre.nass@student.uib.no> writes:
> > I wish to make rule looking something like this:
> > create rule newsrule as
> >   on insert to news do
> >     if new.publishtime is not null insert into news_unpublished
> > values(new.id);
>
> > I.e. "On an insert to news, if new.publish is not null, insert the new
> > post's id into news_unpublished.
>
> What you want here is a trigger, not a rule.  The closest you could come
> with a rule is to copy *all* unpublished ids into news_unpublished each
> time something got inserted into news.  There are applications for that
> sort of thing, but this ain't it.  See the trigger examples in the
> plpgsql or pltcl sections of the manual.
>
> regards, tom lane
>