Re: nested if , and how to trigger....

I think the question was whether a function can be called from within a
function. I sure hope so, although I don't know...

Ian

Stephan Szabo wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Muhammad Rusydi wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > can we do nested if in function ? would you give me some example?
>
> In what context? In plpgsql, you can nest if's pretty normally:
> create function f() returns int4 as '
> begin
> if (1=1) then
> if (1=0) then
> raise exception ''1=0'';
> else
> raise notice ''1!=0'';
> end if;
> else
> raise exception ''1!=1'';
> end if;
> return 0;
> end;' language 'plpgsql';
>
> > second, if i've create table like this:
> >
> > create table tb (
> > code varchar(4),
> > classes varchar(6),
> > lecture varchar(4),
> > th int2,
> > day varchar(1),
> > hr varchar(1),
> > room varchar(4),
> > primary key (code,kl,ds));
>
> code,kl,ds? What are kl and
> ds?
>
> > my questions is how to prevent this record to be insert:
> > code classes lecture th day hr room
> > K021 1tip01 1011 5 1 1 1111
> > K022 1tip01 1011 5 1 1 1111
> >
> > or :
> > code classes lecture th day hr room
> > K021 1tip01 1011 5 1 1 1111
> > K021 1tip01 1012 5 1 1 1111
>
> If code or lecture must always be unique, then use a unique
> constraint. If you can have duplicate codes if and only
> if the lecture is the same and you can have duplicate lectures
> if and only if the code is the same, you'll probably need
> to do a before insert/update trigger that checks for you
> (and you'll need to lock the table i think so that you
> can't have two transactions inserting inconsistant data
> that the other can't see due to it not being committed)
>
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