Hi,
I am having trouble with an insert rule that also does an update. It works
fine for a single insert but multiple inserts in a single statement don't
behave as I expected.
An outline of the problem is:
A table "trans" has a "client_id" and a transaction amount called "points".
Another table "clienst" also holds the "client_id" and an accumulated
amount "total_points". I create a rule for the trans table:
create rule trans_insert as on insert to trans do also
update
clients
set
total_points = total_points + NEW.points;
where
client_id = NEW.client_id;
This works fine for a single insert but if I dump multiple transactions for
multiple clients in the trans table only the first transaction for each
client is accounted for in clients.total_points.
I am just about to try and implement this as a trigger but it is driving me
crazy as to why this won't work as a rule. If I put something like the
following:
insert into foo values(NEW.points);
Then every transaction points value is copied to foo.
Any help is very appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott.
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