Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:33:42 -0400
From: Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: Trigger Procedure Error: NEW used in query that is not in a rule
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Javier Fonseca V. wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm doing a Trigger Procedure in pl/pgSQL.  It makes some kind of auditing.
> 
> I think that it's working alright except for the next line:
> 
> EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || quote_ident(somedynamictablename) || ' SELECT 
> new.*';
> 
> PostgreSQL keeps telling me: "ERROR: NEW used in query that is not in a 
> rule".  I think that this NEW problem is because of the scope of the 
> EXECUTE statement (outside the scope of the trigger), so it doesn't 
> recognize the NEW record.
> 
> Maybe I could fix it concatenating column names and the 'new' values but 
> I want to do my trigger as flexible as possible (I have several tables 
> to audit).
> 
> Somebody has any suggestion?

You got some suggestions in response to your multipost of this question in 
pgsql.sql.

-- 
Lew