X-Original-To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A430A476142 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:37:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [64.49.215.80]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CC0475FB0 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:34:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by news.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 037DB43A6A1; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:34:33 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Lindsay X-Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.sql Subject: Re: automatic time/user stamp - rule or trigger? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:33:29 -0500 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <3E415F97.62A6E585@Yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3E415F97.62A6E585@Yahoo.com> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200302/103 X-Sequence-Number: 11501 Jan Wieck wrote: > A rule will not work here because rules cannot cause the same action on > the same table they are called for. > A-ha! I guess that's what I wasn't understanding. Triggers it is then. Thanks, -Neal