Re: Question about accessing current row data inside trigger

have you looked in the contrib directory (Postgresql 7.4.6).   I just checked and the dbmirror/pending.c looks like 
some good code to follow.

Jim



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From: pw <p.willis@telus.net>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Sent: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:57:24 -0800
Subject: [INTERFACES] Question about accessing current row data inside trigger

> *previously posted this to pgsql-general*
> 
> -Hello,
> -
> -I have a trigger function written in C.
> -The trigger function is called via:
> -
> -CREATE TRIGGER after_update AFTER UPDATE ON some_table
> -   FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE  my_trigger_function();
> -
> -   Since the trigger is called after each row update the actual
> -row data
> -should be available in some way to the trigger.
> -
> -    What functionality (SPI ?) do I use to use the column values -from the
> -current row in the actual trigger?
> -
> -    Does SPI_cursor_fetch automatically give me the current trigger -row or
> -do I need to query again for the proper row?
> -
> -thanks for any insight,
> -
> -Peter
> 
> I am now using :
> 
> TupleTableSlot  *t = (TupleTableSlot *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);
> bool isnull;
> 
> char *buffer=(char *)DatumGetPointer(GetAttributeByName(t, 
> "some_column_name", &isnull));
> 
> The pointer always comes back NULL though there is data
> in the column.
> 
> I'm still not sure this is the correct way to access
> the data from the updated row.
> 
> Is this the correct way to get a string back from
> the data in the column named 'some_column_name'?
> 
> Do I have the correct TupleTableSlot pointer?
> 
> Thanks for any insight,
> 
> Peter
> 
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