Le 27/12/2010 18:57, Michael Satterwhite a écrit :
> I'm new to PostgreSQL, but have worked with other databases. I'm trying to
> write a trigger to default a timestamp column to a fixed interval before
> another. The test setup is as follows:
>
> create table test
> ( date1 timestamp,
> date2 timestamp
> );
>
> create or replace function t_listing_startdate() returns trigger as
> $t_listing_startdate$
> begin
> if NEW.date2 is null then
> NEW.date2 := NEW.date1 - interval '7 day';
> end if;
> return NEW;
> end;
> $t_listing_startdate$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> CREATE TRIGGER t_listing_startdate before insert or update on test
> for each row execute procedure t_listing_startdate();
>
> Insert into test(date1) values('May 4, 2012');
> INSERT 0 1
> test=# select * from test;
> date1 | date2
> ---------------------+-------
> 2012-04-27 00:00:00 |
> (1 row)
>
> I'm obviously missing something ... and probably something obvious. Why is
> date2 still null?
>
I'm not sure it'll help you. I copy/pasted your SQL script in my 9.0.2
release. Worked great.
What does \d says about your table? your trigger could be disabled.
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