I fire this trigger whenever my client updates a row in the db: CREATE FUNCTION notify_jobinfo() RETURNS "trigger" AS ' BEGIN EXECUTE ''NOTIFY ''||TG_RELNAME||''_''||NEW.jobnumber; RETURN NEW; END ' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
CREATE TRIGGER notify_jobinfo AFTER UPDATE ON jobinfo FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE notify_jobinfo(); CREATE TABLE jobinfo ( acode text, jobnumber text DEFAULT nextval('public.jobinfo_seq'::text), creationdate date DEFAULT now(), shortdescription text, projectcode text, holdnumber text, insertioninfo text, jobtitle text, insertiondate text, iscomplete boolean DEFAULT false, isbilled boolean DEFAULT false, CONSTRAINT "$1" CHECK ((jobnumber <> ''::text)) ); My problem is that I have had to import legacy data for the jobnumber column. My client was originally using an excel file. they were free to do as they pleased and there are jobnumbers like '1041.01' '1041.02'. I can not seem to update these rows because of the dot in the jobnumber field. I have found that I can change the dot to an underscore but I thought I would ask if there is a better solution. here is the error: UPDATE jobinfo SET isbilled = false WHERE jobnumber = '1162.01'; ERROR: syntax error at or near ".01" at character 20 CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "notify_jobinfo" line 2 at execute statement Ted __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org