Re: undeleteable records

Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> Hey Justin - Tara and I figured out that a trigger on this table - which is
> supposed to archive deleted information - blocks deletes altogether. We
> lifted this trigger from open ACS... we are having some difficulties with
> all such triggers. When we re-create the table w/o the trigger all is
> well. Hope to get some time to figure out what is wrong with these damn
> triggers! ;)

All BEFORE triggers suppress the original operation when
returning NULL instead of NEW/OLD (NEW on INSERT/UPDATE, OLD
on DELETE). The return value of AFTER triggers is ignored.

Could it be that the triggers where designed to be AFTER
triggers and you accidentially declared them as BEFORE?

Jan

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