Jeff Boes wrote:
I'm trying to write a general-purpose trigger that will disallow updates on certain fields (I could probably do this in other ways, but I have a stubborn streak ...). Given a table, I want to define a trigger on that table that will "write-protect" one column by name: CREATE TRIGGER tbl_nomod_create BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON tbl FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE no_modification_allowed('create_date');
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION no_modification_allowed() RETURNS TRIGGER LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' AS '
It's a lot easier if you use TCL/Perl/one of the other interpreted languages. Bound to be an example in the mailing list archives, I might even have posted one.
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