From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: simple trigger question ...
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:31:20 -0400 (AST)
Message-ID: <20030403002922.Y71125@hub.org> (raw)
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Okay, so I do have to create the FUNCTION first, I can't do it without?
Can a TRIGGER pass an arg to the FUNCTION?
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >> Er ... you just want to bump the sequence and throw away the actual
> >> value? You don't want to store the value somewhere?
>
> > Correct
>
> Then you need something like (untested)
>
> CREATE FUNCTION mytrig() RETURNS TRIGGER AS '
> begin
> perform nextval(''seq'');
> return new;
> end' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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