The technical reference gives an example of a trigger on a table - employee Just to test this, I have created the following table, CREATE TABLE employee (name VARCHAR(30), age int4, state VARCHAR(2), manager VARCHAR(3), adult VARCHAR(3));
The I created a simple Function, as follows : CREATE FUNCTION trig_insert_update_check_emp() RETURNS opaque AS ' BEGIN IF new.age > 20 THEN new.adult = ''yes''; ELSE new.adult = ''no''; END IF; END; ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; Finally, I defined the Trigger as : CREATE TRIGGER employee_insert_update BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON employee FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE trig_insert_update_check_emp(); Now, when I execute the following : INSERT INTO employee (name,age,state,manager) VALUES ('sean',29,'tx','yes'); I get : ERROR fmgr_info function 6264440 cache lookup failed What am I doing wrong ???? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]