From: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: rule creating infinite recursion not sure why |
Date: | 2007-02-16 15:22:52 |
Message-ID: | 20070216152252.GA19276@KanotixBox |
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Gene <genekhart(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:
> I was trying to create a rule to set a column to false whenever another column
> was changed:
>
> CREATE RULE...
> ON UPDATE TO criterion
> WHERE new.pattern::text <> old.pattern::text DO UPDATE table SET flag =
> false
> WHERE id = _o_l_d_._i_d
>
> pattern | id
> 12345 | 1
>
> => update criterion set pattern = '12345' where id = 1;
> ERROR: infinite recursion detected in rules for relation "criterion"
I think, you should better use a TRIGGER and modify the NEW.flag within
the Trigger. Your solution creates a new UPDATE when an UPDATE occur.
Andreas
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