Hi all
I have a view, that is a join over 4 tables (the setup of the rule question). I want to update the central table over the view (by an instead-of trigger). How can I determine, whether an attribute should get set to NULL, "new.XYZ is null" or whether it should be left alone. Is there a leave-me-alone function determining, whether an attribute is in the set clause of an update statement. I am thinking along the line code in the trigger function like
update TABLE
set XYZ = case
when leave-me-alone (new.XYZ) then old.XYZ
else new.XYZ
end;
And what about the where condition... hm, guess I am a bit confused.
IIUC, The NEW record is complete, with every value as it should be in the newly saved tuple. There is no leave-me-alone concept. You don’t get to know if the column was specified or not in the update command.
David J.
