On Friday 18 July 2003 10:18, Terence Kearns wrote: > damn. There's realy no other way for me to access the value since the > trigger function will be called from different relations. > > I tried idval := (''NEW.'' || TG_ARGV[3]); but recieved > ERROR: pf_atoi: error in "NEW.blah": can't parse "NEW.blah" > > Oh well, can't win them all :/
Well, not this one at the moment, anyway. > Well I suppose I could try TCL. The problem is that there is little to > no documentation on postgres stored procedures in TCL and I've never > even seen the language before. None the less, I'll look into it. It's > almost worth it. If that fails, I may even try perl <shudders>. if that > files, I will try to get --with-python to configure (which it's refusing > to do at the moment even though I have a working installation). Not sure if you can write triggers in perl, and I think python is going untrusted only (which means you need to be an admin to create functions). - Richard Huxton ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]