Re: Triggers and Functions

["A. Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>]

am  Fri, dem 24.11.2006, um  7:25:16 -0500 mailte Tom Allison folgendes:
> I would like to create a function/trigger which will update a timestamp on 
> table A when an UPDATE is executed against table B
> CREATE FUNCTION update_token(bigint) RETURNS void AS '
>   UPDATE tokens SET last_seen = now()
>   WHERE token_idx = $1 and last_seen < now();
> ' LANGUAGE SQL
> 
> 
> CREATE TRIGGER touch_token AFTER UPDATE ON user_token FOR EACH ROW
> EXECUTE PROCEDURE update_token(token_idx)
> 
> 
> But it doesn't seem to change the filed 'last_seen' on the tokens table...

I think, you should better create a RULE like this:

create rule update_rule as on update to user_token do also update tokens set last_seen = now() where token_idx = NEW.token_idx;

Andreas
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