Re: [SQL] Trigger and function not on speaking terms

2004-08-05 Thread Kevin Davis
You need to define fn_foo w/o params per Doc Section 19.9. Your intent as expressed in the trigger def (args) can then be fulfilled through special top level vars. On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:20, Jeff Boes wrote: > Hmm, this is puzzling me: > > create or replace function fn_foo(text) returns trigger

Re: [SQL] Trigger and function not on speaking terms

2004-08-02 Thread Richard Poole
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:20:15PM -0400, Jeff Boes wrote: > It would seem my trigger definition is trying to find fn_foo(), when I > mean for it to call fn_foo(TEXT). Triggers have to be declared to take no arguments; they find the rows on which they operate in magical ways. (For PL/PgSQL trigg

Re: [SQL] Trigger and function not on speaking terms

2004-08-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jeff Boes wrote: > Hmm, this is puzzling me: > > create or replace function fn_foo(text) returns trigger as ' > begin ># Do some stuff with $1 > end; > ' language 'plpgsql'; > > CREATE FUNCTION > > create table bar (aaa text); > > CREATE TABLE > > create trigger trg_bar > a

[SQL] Trigger and function not on speaking terms

2004-08-02 Thread Jeff Boes
Hmm, this is puzzling me: create or replace function fn_foo(text) returns trigger as ' begin # Do some stuff with $1 end; ' language 'plpgsql'; CREATE FUNCTION create table bar (aaa text); CREATE TABLE create trigger trg_bar after insert or update on bar execute procedure fn_foo('string'); ERROR: