Re: Triggers

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 17:25, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
>O Leif B. Kristensen έγραψε στις Nov 22, 2005 :
>> I'm trying to understand triggers. I have read the documentation in
>> the manual as well as the few pages in the Douglas book about the
>> subject, but I don't see how to implement a trigger that simply
>> updates a 'last_edit' date field in my 'persons' table whenever I do
>> an insert or update into my 'participants' table; that is a trigger
>> that basically does an "UPDATE persons SET 'last_edit' = NOW() WHERE
>> persons.person_id = participants.person_fk". Is that even possible?
>
>smth like:
>foodb=# CREATE or REPLACE FUNCTION upd_dad() RETURNS "trigger" AS '
>foodb'# BEGIN
>foodb'# UPDATE dad set lastedit=now() where id=new.dadid;
>foodb'# RETURN new;
>foodb'# END;
>foodb'# '
>foodb-# LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>CREATE FUNCTION
>foodb=# CREATE TRIGGER upd_dad_tg AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON kid FOR
> EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE upd_dad();

leif=> create or replace function update_last_edit() returns trigger as
$$
leif$> begin
leif$> update persons set last_edit=now() where person_id=new.person_fk;
leif$> return new;
leif$> end;
leif$> $$ language plpgsql;
CREATE FUNCTION
leif=> create trigger update_last_edit after insert or update on
participants
leif-> for each row execute procedure update_last_edit();
CREATE TRIGGER
leif=> insert into participants (participant_id,person_fk) values (1,1);
ERROR:  record "new" has no field "last_edit"
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "process_last_edited" line 2 at assignment
leif=>

What am I missing?
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