Ok that was my oversight in understanding that the path does not change upon entering a function. I assumed that .it does by simply picking it from the schema2.test1
Thanks a bunch Armand On Oct 13, 2016, at 5:31 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Armand Pirvu (home) <armand.pi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > 2 schemas , schema1 and schema2, with same tables , a base table and a > tracking one. > > > Search path is set to schema1 by default. > insert into schema2.test1 (col2 , col3) values ('foo1','foo2') > I get an entry in schema1.test1_hist and not in schema2.test1_hist > > See: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-trigger.html#PLPGSQL-DML-TRIGGER > > TG_TABLE_SCHEMA > > Any object name not schema qualified will use search_path for resolution. > Search path doesn't change upon entering a function unless the function > defines its own - and your's does not. > > David J. >