Re: Tantalizing reference to passing data from NEW variable

Rich Cullingford wrote:
> This question seems to have been asked a number of times on this list, 
> recently (including by me) without being answered: how to pass the row 
> data stored in the NEW variable from a trigger function into a 
> sub-function. None of the obvious syntaxes work, including one by a 
> respondent in this list that suggested assigning NEW to a record 
> variable, and then passing *that*. After searching up and down the 
> archives, I see the following tantalizing snippet (from 6/2003) in the 
> context of a rule:

The standard answer to this has been to use PL/Tcl for your trigger
function instead of PL/pgSQL. I imagine PL/Python would work also, but
I'm not sure.

(FWIW, PL/R would work too, but I doubt you would want to install R just
to have this capability.)

I looked a bit at making this work in PL/pgSQL at some point -- IIRC the
issues to be solved were non-trivial.

Joe