Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:00:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Harald Fuchs <hf0614x@protecting.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "select" at character 9
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Harald Fuchs wrote:

> In article <20050905213103.F5782@megazone.bigpanda.com>,
> Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Graf L=E1szl=F3 wrote:
>
> >>
> >> CREATE FUNCTION test_verif() RETURNS trigger AS $test_verif$
> >> BEGIN
> >> NEW.id :=3D select nextval('test_azon_seq');
>
> > I think you want to remove select here, you're already effectively doin=
g a
> > select of the right hand side in the assignment.
>
> >> NEW.nev :=3D nev;
> > I think you want to remove this line entirely.  What nev were you
> > expecting on the right hand side?  If it's the new one, well, NEW.new i=
s
> > already that.
>
> L=E1szl=F3 could also remove the entire trigger and use something like
>
>
> CREATE TABLE test (
>   id SERIAL NOT NULL,
>   nev VARCHAR(25),
>   datum TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT current_timestamp,
>   PRIMARY KEY (id)
> );

That's slightly different though.  The trigger forces the value whether or
not a value was assigned in the insert, the defaults only apply if the
column does not have a value given to it.