Re: [GENERAL] After insert trigger question

2005-04-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:38:48AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about performance, if its a matter of choice between after or before > insert, what perform better? According to the "Triggers" chapter in the documentation, "If you have no specific reason to make a trigger before or afte

Re: [GENERAL] After insert trigger question

2005-04-27 Thread mmiranda
>PostgreSQL 8.0 introduced PL/pgSQL exception handlers. >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.h tml#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING >Regardless of whether the trigger is BEFORE or AFTER, an untrapped >error will abort the insert. >CREATE FUNCTION trigfunc() RETURNS tr

Re: [GENERAL] After insert trigger question

2005-04-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:24:16PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:45:44AM -0600, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > I am concerned about how reliable is an before insert trigger, i > > made some computation in my trigger and i want that no matte

Re: [GENERAL] After insert trigger question

2005-04-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:45:44AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said: > I am concerned about how reliable is an before insert trigger, i > made some computation in my trigger and i want that no matter what > happens inside the trigger (exception

[GENERAL] After insert trigger question

2005-04-27 Thread mmiranda
Hi ppl, i have a specific question about insert triggers, in the docs i found that you can change the value of an inserted column using the following syntax: NEW.column_name := value and then if you return NEW the new value is stored instead of the original. this is true if it is a before insert