From: Andreas Pflug <Andreas.Pflug@web.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: How to notice column changes in trigger
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:30:37 +0100
Message-ID: <3E6874CD.4090501@web.de> (raw)
How can I detect whether a column was changed by an update command
inside a trigger?
create table test(a int, b int, c int, primary key(a))
b and c should be updated inside an update trigger if not modified by
the statement itself
1) update test set a=0 -> trigger does its work
2) update test set a=0, b=1, c=2 -> trigger does nothing
3) update test set a=0, b=b, c=c -> trigger does nothing, but content of
a and b dont change either although touched
What I'm looking for is something like
IF NOT COLUMN_TOUCHED(b) THEN ...
For MSSQL, this would be coded as IF NOT UPDATE(b) ..
IF OLD.b=NEW.b will not work, case 3) will falsely execute the trigger code.
Any hints?
Andreas
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