To make a long story short, I am archiving data from an original table to a table I created. This is a third party web application that I am doing this with, so I can't revise the structure/code of this application. With this said, if the original table goes through an insert or update action I want to replicate the information to my archive table. I don't want to delete any articles from my archive table so this is why I am not wanting to do anything based on a delete action. The only problem that I am facing is how to tell the function that I want to perform an update if an update occurred and an insert if an insert action occurred. I want to have different actions occur depending on if the trigger was based on an insert or update. Help, I've been stumped for two days. Thanks in advance. This is what I have so far: CREATE TRIGGER archive_articles AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON news_content EXECUTE PROCEDURE su_archive_articles(); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION su_archive_articles() RETURNS TRIGGER LANGUAGE plpgsql AS ' DECLARE tmp_news_id CHARACTER varying(48); tmp_title CHARACTER varying(100); tmp_abstract CHARACTER varying(300); tmp_news_story TEXT; tmp_topic_id CHARACTER varying(10); tmp_create_date DATE; tmp_author CHARACTER varying(50); tmp_begin_date DATE; tmp_end_date DATE; tmp_priority CHARACTER(1); tmp_image_name CHARACTER varying(512); tmp_image_mime_type CHARACTER varying(50); tmp_layout_type CHARACTER varying(10); BEGIN SELECT INTO tmp_news_id news_id from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_title title from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_abstract abstract from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_news_story news_story from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_topic_id topic_id from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_create_date create_date from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_author author from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_begin_date begin_date from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_end_date end_date from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_priority priority from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_image_name image_name from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_image_mime_type image_mime_type from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); SELECT INTO tmp_layout_type layout_type from news_content where last_inserted(news_id); //This is to be done if an INSERT action was done on the table INSERT INTO su_archives(news_id, title, abstract, news_story, topic_id, create_date, author, begin_date, end_date, priority, image_name, image_mime_type, layout_type) VALUES (tmp_news_id,tmp_title,tmp_abstract,tmp_news_story,tmp_topic_id,tmp_create_date,tmp_author,tmp_begin_date,tmp_end_date,tmp_priority,tmp_ image_name ,tmp_image_mime_type,tmp_layout_type); //HOW DO I TELL IT TO DO AN UPDATE ON THE ARCHIVE RECORD IF AN UPDATE WAS DONE RETURN NEW; END ';