Re: Problems with Triggers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Problems with Triggers
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Msg-id 20040415093108.S31418@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Problems with Triggers  (Sebastian Böck <sebastianboeck@freenet.de>)
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Sebastian B�ck wrote:

> is there a simple operator to determine whether the OLD.value and
> NEW.value are different. The <> operator is not working on NULL's.

Not as far as I know, although I think you can simplify the last part as
(NEW.val IS NULL <> OLD.val IS NULL)

> I need something like this:
> NEW.val <> Old.val OR
> NEW.val IS NULL AND OLD.val IS NOT NULL OR
> NEW.val IS NOT NULL AND OLD.val IS NULL

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