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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Organization: Archonet Ltd
To: "Anagha Joshi" <ajoshi@nulinkinc.com>, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help : Use of return from function/procedure.
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:55:02 +0100
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On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:42 am, Anagha Joshi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to postgres and using version 7.2.4
>
> I've created a trigger and function which does the following:
> 	trigger 'T' fires after insert on a spcific table takes place
> and it executes function 'F'
>
> Function 'F' returns the new record inserted by 'return new' statement.
>
> Now my question is:
> How can I use this 'new' value in my client program? In this prgm., I
> want to know which all values are inserted into the table.

Short answer - you don't. I'm not sure why you want to do this - if you jus=
t=20
inserted the new values, surely you know what they are?

There was something very similar to this last week, I'd have a look in the=
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mailing-list archives at http://archives.postgresql.org - it was either thi=
s=20
list or "general".

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  Richard Huxton