RE: [GENERAL] Triggers: options besides compiled code?

Jackson, DeJuan <djackson@cpsgroup.com>

From: "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson@cpsgroup.com>
To: Brian <signal@shreve.net>, Roland Roberts <roberts@panix.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-07-10T17:22:29Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> > I started to look at the triggers documentation and was immediately
> > dismayed to discover that I would have compile code to create a
> > trigger.  I have been using the old "rules" mechanism to
> automatically
> > put a sequence number into a tuple when inserting new rows.  Are my
> > choices limited to just (1) compiled code, and (2) the old rules
> > mechanism?
> 
> if you insert a new row, isn't the sequence automatically inserted?
> 
It is if you use table defaults.  (see 'create table', and 'netval()')
		-DEJ