Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote: > > 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. That sounds a bit contrived, but you could create a view and hide the processing in an INSTEAD OF INSERT trigger. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
