You're looking for a trigger, not a rule.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Edward Blake wrote:

Thanks to everyone who's helped me before.

I'm trying to create the following mysql table in postgres:

CREATE TABLE visit (
    data1 varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    data2 varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL,
    data3 timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);

Thus far, I've been able to get this far:
CREATE TABLE visit (
    data1 varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    data2 varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL,
    data3 timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
CREATE RULE timestamp_update AS ON UPDATE TO visit
    DO ALSO
    UPDATE vist
         SET data3 = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

I've tried multiple iterations of how to accomplish this and keep getting
stuck. With the one above, postgres yells and says:
ERROR:  infinite recursion detected in rules for relation "visit"

Any ideas?


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