I have tables representing a ledger system and the accounts on which it 
operates.

I want to do 2 things to all transactions altering the ledger tables.

First, all of the inserts into the ledger tables should be balanced ( They 
should sum to 0 ).  If not I want to abort the transaction.

Second, if the transaction is balanced I want to update the account balance on 
the account tables.


In other database systems that I have used when you have a statement level 
trigger you get access to the inserted/updated/deleted rows from that 
transaction as "virtual" tables within the trigger that you can manipulate.

I am currently using plpgsql to write my triggers.  I have not been able to 
figure out the "right" way to do this in PostgreSQL and would appreciate any 
advice.


Thanks,

Craig



---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
       subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your
       message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Reply via email to