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On 12/28/2016 07:06 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
I'm trying to write a trigger (my first) to update another table if the
user_id is new. But I'm getting a index exception that the user_id

What is the actual error message?

already exists. I'm picking up data from another feed which gives
provides me with changes to the main database.

what I have is

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION add_new_user()
        RETURNS TRIGGER AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
        commits RECORD;
BEGIN
        SELECT INTO commits * FROM changes WHERE user_id = NEW.user_id;

In the above you are checking whether the changes table has the user_id and if does not then creating a new user in the user table below. Not sure how they are related, but from the description of the error it would seem they are not that tightly coupled. In other words just because the user_id does not exist in changes does not ensure it also absent from the table user. Off the top of head I would say the below might be a better query:

SELECT INTO commits * FROM user WHERE user_id = NEW.user_id;

Though it would help the debugging process if you showed the complete schema for both the changes and user tables.


        IF NOT FOUND
        THEN
                INSERT INTO user (user_name, user_id, change_id,
created_date)
                        VALUES(NEW.user_name, NEW.user_id,
NEW.change_id, NEW.created_date);
        END IF;
        RETURN NEW;
END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

CREATE TRIGGER add_new_user_trigger
BEFORE INSERT ON changes
FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE add_new_user();

I hoping for some recommendations on how to fix or at where I'm going wrong.

Thanks,
Clifford


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