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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: triggers and plpgsql question
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:38:45 -0700
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Mathieu,

> The thing I need, is to be able to know what does NEW contains, and I have
> not found out any mean to do so. If it's not possible to do so, I'll write
> a function per table, but for the beauty of all this, I would have liked =
to
> do it the way above.

You can't do this in PL/pgSQL.   See the online documentation on writing=20
triggers in C; that is the only way to get what you want.

--=20
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco