Of course. Silly me.

At 12:54 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
Wolfgang,

Yes you may, within the trigger only, change values of that row only. it's known as

:new.<column_name> := <whatever>;

>If so is it ok to call a package in the trigger that selects that row and
>changes some values in the row?

a) it is not so and
b) you can not do anything with that row (or that table for that matter) in
either the trigger or any called package or procedure. You'll get a
"mutating table" error.

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