Hi Chris, > Why do that as a trigger, then? Why not simply call a procedure that > generates the value and inserts it? Because this must be unknown to whoever makes the call and I'm not supposed to expose any detail of what's going on behind the scenes. Outsourcing part of sensitive apps also means that you do not want all of the outside devs to know all that company X is doing, and how it is doing it, sometimes. Cheers Bèrto -- ============================== If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general