Re: How to notice column changes in trigger

Aspire Something wrote:
> Hello Christoph Haller ,
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>>>>So you want the trigger executed only if assignments to b and/or c do
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> Do sime thing like this use if /then /esle s block for the problem
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> In the first if blick check that b and c is null by the declaration of
> IS NULL after that you run the update command as required
>
> The program code will show as
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> create function
> CREATE FUNCTION BLAH_FUNCTION() RETURNS "trigger"
> AS '
> usual blah blah of declre and all ,
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> IF NEW.b IS NULL and NEW.C IS NULL THEN
> ROCK BABY
> ELSE
> Do OTHERWISE
> END IF;
> more blah blah plpgsql';
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Sorry,
this won't work at all.
The NEW will contain the new row contents, and that may well be non-null
for columns not mentioned in the update query. This kind of code will
perform well on inserts, but not on updates of well-populated rows.
Core SQL or PL/PGSQL statements won't do the job.

Regards,
Andreas