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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jamie Lawrence <postgres@jal.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Problems with NEW.* in triggers
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:10:46 -0500
Message-ID: <27275.1067991046@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jamie Lawrence <postgres@jal.org> writes:
> I don't understand why moddate isn't getting set to now() in the above.

Josh fingered the problem there --- you need a BEFORE trigger if you
want to affect the data that will be stored.  I had missed that little
mistake :-(

			regards, tom lane



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