Re: Does trigger only accept functions?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, veem v <veema0000(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Does trigger only accept functions?
Date: 2024-06-11 01:41:43
Message-ID: 3ccbf6ee561bd9435115101140b654d0961e5f13.camel@cybertec.at
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On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 13:20 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-createtrigger.html
>
> That is either a function or a procedure.

The trigger function must be a function, it cannot be a procedure.
The syntax EXECUTE PROCEDURE is just for backward compatibility with
the time before PostgreSQL had procedures.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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