Michael Shulman wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can write a trigger
function that does the right thing, with 'INSERT ... RETURNING
person_id INTO ...', but Postgres will not let me add an INSERT
trigger to a view; it says 'ERROR: "studentinfo" is not a table'.
Got a short example of what you've tried so far?

create function ins_st() returns trigger as $$
declare
  id integer;
begin
  insert into person (...) values (NEW....) returning person_id into id;
  insert into student (person_id, ...) values (id, NEW....);
end;
$$ language plpgsql;

create trigger ins_student before insert on studentinfo
  for each row execute procedure ins_st();

ERROR:  "studentinfo" is not a table

Mike


The only way I could find to make this work is to use a rule and wrap the inner "insert returning" in a function.

create or replace function newperson (studentinfo) returns setof person as
$$
declare
  arec person%rowtype;
begin
  for arec in
     insert into person (foo,bar) values ($1.foo,$1.bar) returning *
  loop
    -- insert into address (...) values (arec.person_id, $1....)
    -- insert into phone (...) values (arec.person_id, $1....)
     return next arec;
  end loop;
  return;
end;
$$
language plpgsql volatile;
create rule atest as on insert to studentinfo do instead (
insert into student (person_id) select (select person_id from newperson(new));
);


klint.

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