Re: BUG #2089: Documentation bug: Triggers in plpythonu

Jozef Behran wrote:

> A trigger in plpythonu cannot use the `args' list to obtain the arguments
> and does not return the row to be written into the database. Instead the
> arguments are placed into a global dictionary called "TD". The row is in
> TD["new"] as a dictionary keyed by the names of the fields (the values are
> the values of the field). The trigger is supposed to return "SKIP" (or
> None?) if it wants the operation to be skipped or modify the TD["new"] to
> the actual content to be written into the database and then return "MODIFY".

I don't see how is this a bug.  It's perfectly documented in the
"Trigger functions" section, here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/plpython-trigger.html

If this is not what you meant, please explain.

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