What I did in a similar trigger was set a variable (of type RECORD) to
NEW and then use that.
(I actually used the appropriate fields, but record should... work)
LER
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On 7/10/01, 4:22:34 PM, Mike Cianflone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote regarding [HACKERS] way to pass NEW into function:
> Is it possible to trick pg/sql to allow passing of the NEW record
> into a function? I've got a trigger that gets kicked off before an insert
> and I need to call another function and pass that record in, but doing a
> perform activate_event(NEW); /* my function is activate_event(OPAQUE) */
> only spits out "ERROR: NEW used in non-rule query". Is there a way to
trick
> it into passing the NEW record into my function?
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Mike
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