Tables and functions and triggers oh my...

I'm going nuts, when I have this table/function/trigger combo my table
never updates - works great as soon as I drop the trigger. Can someone
not so green in PostgreSQL take a gander and tell me what I've done
wrong?

CREATE TABLE syslogTB (
    facility char(10),
      priority char(10),
      date date,
      time time,
      host varchar(128),
      message  text
);

create function PIXMail() returns opaque as '
DECLARE
        logRec RECORD;
        textMessage text;
BEGIN
        select into logRec date,time,message from syslogtb where message
= NEW.message;
        if logRec.message = NEW.message then
                textMessage := ''The PIX has generated the following: ''
logRec.message '''';
                perform pgmail(''PIX <some_email_addy>'',''Paul Fontenot
<some_email_addy>'',''PIX Message'', t
extMessage);
        end if;
        return NEW;
END;' language 'plpgsql';

CREATE TRIGGER trgPIXMail
        BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON syslogtb FOR EACH ROW
        EXECUTE PROCEDURE pixmail();

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