Re: trigger with arguments

Vincent CARON wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I have little problems with a function/trigger in Pl/pgSQL.
> I want to call this function with 2 arguments:
> - the name of a table
> - the name of a column
> So it looks like :
> CREATE  FUNCTION attribute_max(table name,column name)
> The creation is successfull, but, when I look after what's the function
> looks like, it's something like this:
> FUNCTION attribute_max(name,name)
>
> I'm unable to call this function, by a trigger for exemple :
> CREATE TRIGGER "trigger" BEFORE INSERT
>    ON status FOR EACH ROW
>    EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.attribute_max(table1, column1);
> I have this error: function public.attribute_max() does not exist.
> I have tried to put table1 and column1 into single and double quotes,
> and protected by \ also.
>
> Can anyone help me, where am I wrong?
> Regards,
> Vincent
>

Vincent,

"The trigger function must be declared as a function taking
no arguments and returning type trigger."
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/triggers.html

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Kind Regards,
Keith