You are missing a BEGIN in the trigger

delimiter |

CREATE TRIGGER greylist AFTER INSERT on greylist
BEGIN
delete from greylist where first_seen < NOW()-60*60*24*5;
END;
|
delimiter ;

Phil


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Stefan Onken <supp...@stonki.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to using triggers in mysql. I am using mysql 5.1.37  and would
> like to setup a trigger like:
>
> CREATE TRIGGER greylist AFTER INSERT on greylist
> delete from greylist where first_seen < NOW()-60*60*24*5;
> END;
>
> When typing this into mysql I am getting an error. Where is my mistake?
>
>
> mysql> show fields from greylist;
> +---------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+
> | Field         | Type          | Null | Key | Default |
> +---------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+
> | id            | int(11)       | NO   | PRI | NULL    |
> | SenderIP      | varchar(15)   | NO   | MUL | NULL    |
> | SenderAddress | varchar(1024) | NO   | MUL | NULL    |
> | first_seen    | int(11)       | NO   |     | NULL    |
> +---------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+
> 4 rows in set (0,00 sec)
>
> I would like to archive that after every insert in the greylist table I am
> purging the oldest xx records.
>
> Stefan
>
>
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