Re: modifying new tuple on insert in c trigger

Thanks for the help, but I have solved the problem already.

The problem was that I tried to do
char *a = DatumGetCString(SPI_getbinval(...)) for a varchar field
and it did not work. I'm using now SPI_getvalue

Damjan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Damjan Pipan" <damjan(dot)pipan(at)xlab(dot)si>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] modifying new tuple on insert in c trigger

> "Damjan Pipan" <damjan(dot)pipan(at)xlab(dot)si> writes:
> > I'm trying to write a c trigger function which would change an
> > attribute of tuple being inserted. I have read this value
> > from some other table and now I have a problem, because
> > even if I change the tuple with SPI_modifytuple and return
> > modified tuple it does not show in db (it did not change the tuple)
> > but tuple is inserted.
>
> Before groveling through the C code ... did you declare the trigger
> as BEFORE or AFTER? Only BEFORE triggers get to change the inserted
> tuple.
>
> Also, I think the "r" array needs to contain 'r' not ' ' at the
> positions where you want to replace columns.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>