Re: [GENERAL] Returning NEW in an on-delete trigger

2008-09-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jeff Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > This does seem like a bit of a gotcha for someone who writes RETURN NEW > > instead of RETURN OLD or vice versa, but I'm not sure how much we can do > > about that. Lots of people like to write triggers that fire on multipl

Re: [GENERAL] Returning NEW in an on-delete trigger

2008-09-18 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > This does seem like a bit of a gotcha for someone who writes RETURN NEW > instead of RETURN OLD or vice versa, but I'm not sure how much we can do > about that. Lots of people like to write triggers that fire on multiple > event types, so we cou

Re: [GENERAL] Returning NEW in an on-delete trigger

2008-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I discovered a coding error of mine in a trigger that is called > only for deletes. > I was returning NEW instead of OLD. > Since NEW is undefined when deleting a row, it was failing and the row > wasn't being deleted. > However, it was failing

Re: [GENERAL] Returning NEW in an on-delete trigger

2008-09-18 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:21 -0400, Michael Nolan wrote: > Recently I discovered a coding error of mine in a trigger that is > called only for deletes. > > I was returning NEW instead of OLD. > > Since NEW is undefined when deleting a row, it was failing and the row > wasn't being deleted. In P