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CSN <cool_screen_name90001@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Make it a BEFORE UPDATE trigger and just set NEW.stuff_ts to now(),
rather than doing another query inside the trigger function.

-Doug

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