Re: Inserting a record into another table ... inside a schema

On May 5, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Paul Newman wrote:

> I have a public schema with all my tables in it.
>
> I also have a schema for each company that uses our system .. so 300
> companies = 300 schemas. One of the tables has a trigger that is
> trying to insert/update another table that is inside the same schema.
> So far so good. However when I update the base table in schema
> “MySchema” the trigger tries to insert/update a record in the public
> schema and not the “Current” schema (ie the schema of the original
> table). Is there a system variable for “Current Schema” ? …. If not
> what is the best way to achieve this ?

You want search_path -- see

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/ddl-schemas.html#DDL-
SCHEMAS-PATH

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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