Re: questions on rules

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 13:40, Timothy Perrigo wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Do you know if triggers defined on a base table
> fire for operations on inherited tables?  (I.e., if I have an after
> insert trigger on table "base", and a table "derived" that inherits
> from base, will inserts into derived cause the trigger on base to
> fire?)

Hmm - don't know this I'm afraid.

>  If so (this is the behavior I would like), is there a way to
> get the tableoid of the table which caused the trigger to fire?

Here I can help. Check the plpgsql section of the manuals, and there you'll
find a list of special variables available to trigger functions. These
include table and trigger name.

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  Richard Huxton
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