On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:34:48AM +0100, Julian Scarfe wrote:
> So thinking about this a little more, it requires me to be able to change a
> column value to DEFAULT (unless I implement the default from scratch in the
> trigger, but that feels messy). I don't have much experience of triggers:
> can I do that?
DEFAULT won't work for this case, I don't think; you want to set it
to the nextval() of the sequence or whatever it was you were trying
to do. But it's not messy: this is precisely the sort of thing
BEFORE triggers are good at.
A
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