Re: Triggers do not fire

Your update trigger is fired FOR EACH ROW and no rows are updated i.e. no trigger fired!
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:48:59 +0200, Reiner Dassing <dassing(at)wettzell(dot)ifag(dot)de> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I have written a very small test procedure to show a possible error
> on PostgreSQL V7.1.1.
> A trigger does not fire the function on update but on inserts.
> Does someone have made the same experiences?
>
>
> Here is the short example which is doing nothing important, just showing
> the
> situation:
>
> DROP TABLE test;
> CREATE TABLE test (
> "sensor_id" int4 NOT NULL,
> "epoch" datetime NOT NULL,
> "value" float4 NOT NULL,
> PRIMARY KEY (sensor_id,epoch));
>
> DROP FUNCTION f_test();
> CREATE FUNCTION f_test() RETURNS OPAQUE AS '
> BEGIN
> RAISE NOTICE ''Fired %'',TG_OP;
> RETURN NULL;
> END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
>
> DROP TRIGGER t_test;
> CREATE TRIGGER t_test BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON test FOR EACH ROW
> EXECUTE PROCEDURE f_test();
>
> INSERT INTO test VALUES(1,'2000-10-11 12:00:00',-20.2);
> UPDATE test SET value = 1000.0 WHERE epoch = '2000-10-11 12:10:00' AND
> sensor_id = 1;
>
> The result is as follows:
> INSERT INTO test VALUES(1,'2000-10-11 12:00:00',-20.2);
> NOTICE: Fired INSERT
> INSERT 0 0
> UPDATE test SET value = 1000.0 WHERE epoch = '2000-10-11 12:10:00' AND
> sensor_id = 1;
> UPDATE 0
>
> The insert notice can be shown!
> The update notice is not there!
>
> Why?
>
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With best regards
> Reiner Dassing
>
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