Re: Firing triggers based on certain Insert conditions

From: "Harpreet Dhaliwal" <harpreet(dot)dhaliwal01(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Firing triggers based on certain Insert conditions
Date: 2007-01-28 18:29:28
Message-ID: d86a77ef0701281029q5e8b0812sfc0b223edd16c94e@mail.gmail.com
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I never said I don't want my trigger to do anything.
My subject line only made it pretty clear that I want to fire my trigger
based on
certain conditions.
I know its kind of a silly feature request but you really can't help it
when you are working with stupid advisors :)
thanks for your reponse anyways.
Harpreet

On 1/28/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Harpreet Dhaliwal" <harpreet(dot)dhaliwal01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I want this trigger to fire only when after Insert this field 'source'
> > has value = 'from', otherwise trigger should not be fired at all.
> > Just wondering if its really possible?
>
> No, and it seems pretty silly as a feature request. Why don't you just
> put the test in the trigger, and have it do nothing when you don't want
> it to do anything?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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