Re: [Trigger] Help needed with NEW.* and TG_TABLE_NAME

Jasen Betts schrieb:

> On 2010-05-11, Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo@meisterderspiele.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i have a problem with a trigger written in pl/pgsql.
>>
>> It looks like this:
>>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION versionize()
>> RETURNS TRIGGER
>> AS $$
>> BEGIN
>>
>>    NEW.revision := addContentRevision (OLD.content_id, OLD.revision);
>>
>>    /* not working line, just a stub:
>>    EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO ' || TG_TABLE_NAME  || ' SELECT $1 ' USING NEW;
>>    */
>>
>>    RETURN NULL;
>>
>> END;
>> $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>>
>> The function should be used at different tables and is invoked before
>> UPDATEs. Everything what happens is the function call of
>> addContentRevision. After this call all data (with the updated revision
>> column) should be stored in the table as a new row.
> 
> What many people have missed is that you want to INSERT when the DML
> comnabd UPDATE is used.
> 
> for things like that usually a rule is used instead, but I can see where
> that may be unsuitable for your needs.  I found the following 
> to work on a simple test case.
> 
> 
> The problem is that INSERT in PLPGSQL needs a fixed table-name, and
> that "EXECUTE" can't use variable-names, and further that quote_literal
> doesn't convert ROW variables into something that can be used in a
> VALUES clause.
> 
> so, Here's what I did.
> 
>  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION versionize()
>  RETURNS TRIGGER
>  AS $$
>  BEGIN
> 
>     -- Not havign a definition for addContentRevision
>     -- I had this line commented out during testing.
>     NEW.revision := addContentRevision (OLD.content_id, OLD.revision);
>     
>     EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO '||TG_TABLE_NAME||' SELECT (' || 
>        QUOTE_LITERAL(NEW) || '::' || TG_TABLE_NAME ||').*' ;
> 
>     RETURN NULL;
> 
>  END;
>  $$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL VOLATILE;
> 
> I take NEW, convert it to a quoted literal so I can use it in EXECUTE, cast it 
> to the apreopreiate row type and split it into columns using SELECT
> and .*. That gets inserted.
> 
> you should probably use QUOTE_IDENT on the TG_TABLE_NAME and possibly
> also use similarly quoted TG_SCHEMA_NAME 

That's an quite interesting solution. I've tested it in several ways and 
it works like i want. :)

Thank you very much - and every other responder - for your time.

Greetings from Germany,
Torsten


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