On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:13:24PM +0200, santiago wrote:
> hello
>
> I' trying to catch un update that fails to update because no row matchs
> the where clause:
>
> for instance:
> update t set c=1 where cc=2;
> --and no row with cc=2
>
> I would like to perform a
> insert into t (c) values 1;
> before the update is resolved
>
> I hoped a trigger before update could help me, but it seems
> that if where clause evals to false, triggers are not called..
Triggers FOR EACH ROW are called once for each updated row. I think you
could try with a "FOR EACH STATEMENT" trigger.
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