Re: creating audit tables

OK, I've reworked my function and I can now create my functions and
triggers; however, when I try to do a test update, I get the following
error:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "$1" at character 14
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "audit_update" line 7 at SQL statement

Which I think corresponds to 'audit_table' in the INSERT line below:

CREATE FUNCTION audit_update() RETURNS trigger
AS '
DECLARE
audit_table text;
table_name text;
BEGIN
table_name = TG_RELNAME;
audit_table = ''audit_'' || table_name;
INSERT INTO audit_table VALUES (SELECT OLD.*,now(),''U'' FROM table_name);
return NEW;
END
'
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

I am trying to dynamically construct the audit table's name from the
TG_RELNAME variable (the audit table is always named as the name of the
original table with 'audit_' prepended to it). Is this not a valid
thing to do?

Thanks,
Scott

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 23:59, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Cain <cain(at)cshl(dot)org> writes:
> > I am trying to create audit tables for all of the tables in my
> > database. The function, table and trigger create statements are below.
> > Apparently, I am not doing it quite right, because I get these messages
> > when I try to run the create statements below:
>
> Trigger functions don't take any explicit parameters. Everything they
> need they get through specialized mechanisms (in plpgsql, it's special
> variables like tgargv).
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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