On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:23:04PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 January 2009 20:21:41 Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 08 May 2008 00:27:10 Tino Wildenhain wrote: > > > > > > David Fetter wrote: > > > > > > > > Ref: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00198.php > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Create a generic (possibly overloaded) trigger function, > > > > > > > bundled with PostgreSQL, which sets a field to some value. For > > > > > > > example, a timestamptz version might set the field to now(). > > > > > > > > > > > > Having the pre defined triggers at hand could be useful, especially > > > > > > for people not writing triggers so often to get used to it but I'm > > > > > > really not happy with the idea of magic preprocessing. > > > > > > > > > > I have a generic version of this in pagila. > > > > > > > > Now that we have a specific file in core for generic triggers (right now > > > > with a single one), how about adding this one to it? > > > > > > Any progress on this? TODO? > > > > I think this is a TODO, but not sure who is working on it or what needs to > > be > > done. The generic version in pagila is perhaps not generic enough: > > > > CREATE FUNCTION last_updated() RETURNS trigger > > AS $$ > > BEGIN > > NEW.last_update = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; > > RETURN NEW; > > END $$ > > LANGUAGE plpgsql; > > > > It requires you name your column last_update, which is what the naming > > convention is in pagila, but might not work for everyone. Can someone work > > with that and move forward? Or maybe give a more specific pointer to the > > generic trigger stuff (I've not looked at it before) > > Well, I thought it was a good idea, but no one seems to want to do the > work.
It's a very short piece of work, but it's new work, and I can't in good conscience propose including it in the 8.4 release :( Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers