Re: Where I can find PL/pgSQL and Trigger Examples?

From: Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: alessandro(dot)bottoni(at)infinito(dot)it, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Where I can find PL/pgSQL and Trigger Examples?
Date: 2003-04-18 09:24:44
Message-ID: BAC582EC.17207%a.witney@sghms.ac.uk
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There are a few examples here

http://www.brasileiro.net:8080/postgres/cookbook/

> I'm in the need (for the first time in my life) to intercept an UPDATE
> operation (before it is executed) and use its parameters to perform an
> equivalent INSERT operation on the same table (of course on a different row).
> This small trigger is required to bybass a small bug in a third-party program
> I'm using for my work.
>
> I checked both "Postgres: introduction and concepts" and "Practical Postgres"
> for examples (as well as the User's and Developer's guides of Postgres) but
> I'm still confused by the PL/pgSQL sintax and by the "quotes puzzle". As a
> consequence, I'm looking for real-world/working examples of Triggers and
> PL/pgPSQL (in particular, examples that performs INSERT operation with
> variables values).
>
> Is there anything like a repository of PL/pgSQL examples on the Net? I mean:
> something like the "cookbooks" published by ActiveState
> (ASPN.activestate.com). Where I can find a (possibly _huge_) collection of
> PL/pgSQL programs?
>
> Many thanks for your attention.
>
> ---------------------
> Alessandro Bottoni
>
>
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