Re: [INTERFACES] [pgaccess-users] RE: bugzilla.pgaccess.org

From: Bradley Baetz <bbaetz(at)student(dot)usyd(dot)edu(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] [pgaccess-users] RE: bugzilla.pgaccess.org
Date: 2002-07-11 03:29:26
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0207111328310.30839-100000@tomato.home
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bradley Baetz <bbaetz(at)student(dot)usyd(dot)edu(dot)au> writes:
> > I'm referring to the mysql |timestamp| type, which will update that
> > column's contents to |now()| when any UPDATE is given for that partcular
> > row, unless the column was assigned to. I don't know how to handle the
> > last part in a trigger.
>
> It'd probably be close enough to have an UPDATE trigger that does
>
> if (new.timestamp = old.timestamp)
> new.timestamp = now();

Nope, because the documented way of making sure that the field doens't
change is to use |UPDATE foo SET bar=bar ....|, and thats what bz uses.

Don't worry about this, though - we will hpefully be removing this
'feature' soon.

Bradley

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