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Re: Creating a trigger function

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On Sunday 04 April 2004 20:40, Peter Erickson wrote:
> Ok, I have determined that i can't do:
>    IF NEW IS NOT NULL  -- or -- IF OLD IS NOT NULL
> and that is what is causing the error.
>
> So, with this now known, is there a way to create a trigger & function
> that will allow inserts, updates, and deletes to occur while updating a
> field (mtime) in another table? At the same time, if an update takes
> place, it updates the modified time field (mtime) to the current time.
>
> I can them all to work individually by modifying the function, but I
> cant get the to all work in the same function. Do I need to create a
> trigger for inserts/updates and another for deletes?

In plpgsql, there are a number of special TG_XXX variables defined. You want 
to look at TG_OP. See the manuals for details.

-- 
  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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