Re: Using OLD on INSERT

We check the value of TG_OP as in:
IF TG_OP = ''UPDATE'' THEN
Code that address OLD and NEW here;
ELSE
Code that addresses only NEW here.
END IF;

On Thursday 22 January 2004 08:29 am, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I have a trigger that sets an expires column to
> last_access+expiry::interval if expires IS NULL or if the expires value
> isn't being set or changed.
>
> IF NEW.expires IS NULL OR NEW.expires = OLD.expires THEN
> NEW.expires = NEW.last_access+NEW.expiry:interval;
> END IF;
>
> The problem here is OLD doesn't exist on the first INSERT which throws
> an error. It seems PL/pgSQL doesn't have C's short-circuit booleans.
>
> a) Is there a way around this?
> b) is there a 'right' way to determine if a column is being changed?
>
> Paul (total PL/pgSQL newbie)

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