Re: Stamping rows...

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:23:50PM -0800, Di Croce, Tony wrote:
> I am trying to find a way to stamp all of the rows affected by an update (or
> insert) with a unique value.

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> At first I tried to do this as a trigger function. The problem with this
> solution is that if I dont have the function called for each row, I cannot
> modify those rows. if I DO have the function called for each row, how do
> they get the "change_number" they cannot simply call nextval() as it will be
> different for each row (they also couldn't call curval() because then who is
> ever calling nextval()?)

Have you tried calling nextval() in a FOR EACH STATEMENT trigger
and currval() in a FOR EACH ROW trigger? This works for me in
simple tests. I don't know if statement triggers are guaranteed
to fire before row triggers, but they do appear to work that way.

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Michael Fuhr
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