am Wed, dem 20.12.2006, um 9:31:54 +0530 mailte Parthan folgendes: > Hi, > I am trying to create a simple trigger which inserts a couple of fields > into a table, when data in inserted into another table. > > I have two tables, 'addressbook' and 'phonebook'. When I insert data > into the addressbook (whose fields are name, address1, address2, > address3, phonenum), I want it to add 'name' and 'phonenum' field values > into 'phonebook' table. > > The following is the trigger i wrote for the above.. > > ---- Begin of Code --- > > DROP TRIGGER phonebook on addressbook; > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION add_to_phonebook() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $phonebook$ > DECLARE > new_name varchar; > new_phone varchar; > > BEGIN > IF(TG_OP='INSERT') THEN > INSERT INTO phonebook(name,phonenum) > VALUES(NEW.name,NEW.phonenum); > END IF; > RETURN NEW; > END; > > $phonebook$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; > > CREATE TRIGGER phonebook AFTER INSERT ON addressbook FOR EACH ROW > EXECUTE PROCEDURE add_to_phonebook(); > > ----- End of code --- Sorry, i can't reproduce your problem: test=# create table tele (name text, phone text); CREATE TABLE test=*# create table adr (id serial, name text, phone text, city text); NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "adr_id_seq" for serial column "adr.id" CREATE TABLE test=*# commit; COMMIT test=# create or replace function add_phone() returns trigger as $$ begin IF(TG_OP='INSERT') THEN insert into tele (name, phone) values (new.name,new.phone);end if;return new; end; $$ language plpgsql; CREATE FUNCTION test=*# commit; COMMIT test=# CREATE TRIGGER addphone after insert on adr for each row execute procedure add_phone(); CREATE TRIGGER test=*# commit; COMMIT test=# insert into adr (name, phone,city) values ('ich', '123', 'Dresden'); INSERT 0 1 test=*# select * from tele; name | phone ------+------- ich | 123 (1 row) This is very similar to your example and it works. But i have questions/suggestions: - you have never-used variables in your function. Perhaps you have an older version from the function with an error and the wrong version runs? - perhaps, you have an other trigger on phonebook that calls recursive the trigger on addressbook? - you can use a RULE instead a Trigger, an example: test=# create rule r_adr as on insert to adr do also insert into tele(name) values (new.name); CREATE RULE test=*# commit; COMMIT test=# insert into adr (name, phone,city) values ('du', '456', 'wilsdruff'); INSERT 0 1 test=*# select * from tele; name | phone ------+------- ich | 123 du | 456 du | (3 rows) Now i have a TRIGGER and a RULE, and both works ;-) I think, you should check your tables with \d addressbook and \d phonebook to ensure that everything is okay. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net