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Re: Audit Trigger puzzler


  • From: David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net>
  • To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Audit Trigger puzzler
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:48:24 -0700
  • Message-id: <20090831154824.GC87434@mr-paradox.net> <text/plain>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
- 
- On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 08:50 -0700, David Kerr wrote:
- 
- > so, is there a way in a trigger to know if edited_by is expressly
- > being  set in the update statement? it seems like if I can know that,
- > then i should be able to figure it out.
- 
- No, but you could use a before trigger to reset the value to NULL prior
- to each update, then your after trigger would work.

hmm, that's probably not worth it. fireing two triggers just to get an
edited_by column filled in.

Thanks

Dave



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