Re: help with trigger

From: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help with trigger
Date: 2004-08-27 19:35:42
Message-ID: 20040827193542.91778.qmail@web40101.mail.yahoo.com
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Maybe I've missed it but can someone plese help me
with this?

Brgds and thanks in advance,

--- Dino Vliet <dino_vliet(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I'm new to PostgreSQL and am busy tring to work with
> it. Of pl/pgsql I know even less and that's the part
> I
> have a question on right now. I have this nice
> example
> to get me started with
> pl/pgsql.......
>
> I have a table with the schedule of a service my
> sport
> team wants to offer:
>
> Table Schedule
> name length startdate enddate day
> soccer 4 01-sep-2004 30-sep-2004
> Mon
> tennis 4 01-sep-2004 30-sep-2004
> Wed
>
> This means, that I want to offer soccer weekly, for
> a
> total of 4 weeks as from 1st sep till 30 sep on
> Mondays!
>
> Now, what I do want is a second table that creates
> all
> the dates on which there will be soccer training if
> I
> finish entering this record in table Schedule. So,
> then the other table, called ScheduledDates has the
> follwing records:
>
> Table ScheduleDates
> name occurrence date
> soccer 1 06-sep-2004
> soccer 2 13-sep-2004
> soccer 3 20-sep-2004
> soccer 4 27-sep-2004
>
> Can someone help me with writing this as a trigger
> in
> pl/pgsql?
>
> Another variant is that the trigger starts when the
> table Schedule is populated, but it not just
> automatically creates the 4 records as described
> above, but because the date 20-sep-2004 is a
> national
> holiday and is in table Exceptions, the sheme just
> shifts one up and the occurrence 4 becomes
> occurrence
> 3 and the last schedule date becomes monday the 4th
> of
> october!
>
> I hope you can help me with this one, will put me
> way
> up the learning curve of pl/pgsql
>
>
>
>
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