"Bob Pawley" <rjpaw...@shaw.ca> writes:
> Following is the format with which I have had great success using "New" in 
> After Insert triggers.

>  Insert into p_id.devices (p_id_id, process_id, fluid_id, status, 
> process_graphics_id, device_description)
>  select (p_id.processes.p_id_id), (p_id.processes.process_id), 
> (p_id.processes.fluid_id), ('Pump #1'), ('11'), ('Pump')
>  from p_id.processes
>  where new.pump1 = 'True';

Hmm, maybe for small values of "great success".  new.pump1 is simply a
local variable in the plpgsql function.  That means that the above
command will have one of two behaviors:

* if new.pump1 has the value 'True', every row in p_id.processes will be
  copied into p_id.devices, because the WHERE condition succeeds at
  every row;
* if new.pump1 has any other value, nothing gets copied, because the
  WHERE condition succeeds nowhere.

Maybe that's actually what you intended, but I rather doubt it.  It
seems more likely to me that what you want is something like

        if new.pump1 = 'True' then
          Insert into p_id.devices (p_id_id, process_id, fluid_id, status, 
                                    process_graphics_id, device_description)
          values (new.p_id_id, new.process_id, new.fluid_id, 'Pump #1', '11', 
'Pump');
        end if;

which would have the effect of inserting based on the contents of NEW.*
and nothing else.

                        regards, tom lane

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