Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000104141301.00ad34b0@mail.venux.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 14:27:52 -0500
To: Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>, Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net>
From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Triggers
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
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The system config is:

P2-400, 256Meg ECC, 1 SCSI WDE9180 ULTRA2, FreeBSD-3.3-Release, 
gcc-2.7.2.1, pg-6.5.1.

That is the development server, our operational server is:

Dual P2-333, 256Meg ECC, 3 SCSI, FreeBSD-3.3-Release, gcc-2.7.2.1, pg-6.5.3.

The trigger is untested on the operational server as of yet.


Matthew (works with Mitch)


At 07:42 PM 1/4/00 +0100, Jan Wieck wrote:
>Mitch Vincent wrote:
>
> > I'm using this funtion via a trigger to total up amounts in several fields
> > (and adding that value into a total field)..
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION invoice_total_trigger() RETURNS OPAQUE AS '
> > ...
> >
> > That's the function, here is the trigger.
> >
> > CREATE TRIGGER invoice_total_trigger AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON invoice
> > FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE invoice_total_trigger();
> >
> > It works for updating but not when you insert a new row. Am I doing it
> > wrong?
>
>      I wonder why it works on UPDATE at all, it shouldn't. It is an
>      AFTER ROW trigger and thus, the changed row you return should get
>      ignored. Use BEFORE INSERT instead.
>
>      But that it works on UPDATE indicates some bug somewhere. What
>      release, OS, etc. are you using?
>
>Jan
>
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