> I'm trying to set up a trigger that simply updates a
> field's corresponding timestamp to now() whenever the
> field is updated. But it's not working. Trying to
> debug, I commented out the inner IF and END and the
> log seemed to indicate infinite recursion occurred. My
> next guess is that perhaps NULL's in OLD.stuff is
> causing the IF to behave other than what I expect.
Let me see if I have this right.
You have an 'after-update' trigger on a table that does an update on that
same table, and you're wondering why that creates an infinite loop?
You need to do this in a 'before-update' trigger and set NEW.timestamp,
then return NEW.
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Mike Nolan
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