Re: 'record old is unassigned yet' when using trigger in 7.1.1

Thanks, I sort of figured it out after I sent the email, but I'm still
working on it.

Joe Conway wrote:
>
> > begin
> > IF OLD.status <> NEW.status
> > THEN
> > NEW.statchangedate = CURRENT_DATE;
> > END IF;
> > return NEW;
> > end;
> >
> > The problem is when a new row is inserted I get this error message:
> > ERROR: record old is unassigned yet
> > ... and the insert fails.
> >
> > It doesn't matter if the trigger is before or after.
>
> OLD doesn't exist on inserts, only on update and delete. If you want to use
> the same function for both insert and update use the TG_OP variable and an
> if statement. See
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?plpgsql-trigger.html
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Joe

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