You're more likely to get a response to this on -general than here. Why are you trying to do this with a trigger? ISTM that with what you're trying to do you should be using a stored procedure. On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:13:12PM +0530, Ninad Kalamkar wrote: > i have a problem in triggers for that bellow is my table structure > > survey table > <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>survey_id > > questions table > question_id > survey_id > > answer_options table > answer_option_id > question_id > > > now the problem is > i want to write a trigger after insert on survey table data should be > inserted in questions and answer options table > i get survey_id by new.survey_id but in same function i am not getting > question_id to insert in answer option for newly inserted questions as the > trigger is on insert of survey table > i don't want to use cascaded triggers because it is creating some more > problems > please guide me in this regards -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster