Re: [HACKERS] update_pg_pwd

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] update_pg_pwd
Date: 1999-12-13 11:15:06
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.9912131213110.8544-100000@Panter.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:

> Trigger functions should allways return at least a NULL
> pointer of type HeapTuple, not be declared void. From this I
> assume it's an AFTER ROW trigger,

Must be after row, because it has to wait until the change is actually
written to pg_shadow. Better would be an AFTER STATEMENT is assume.

> There are already some exceptions coded into the test. These
> are PL handlers. Since their real return value is HeapTuple,
> you would have to make this defined special type not
> selectable in another way. So why do you want?

I'm not sure I'm following you, but why would a function that doesn't have
a useful return value return one?

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