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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>39.4. A Complete Trigger Example</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="trigger-interface.html" title="39.3. Writing Trigger Functions in C" /><link rel="next" href="event-triggers.html" title="Chapter 40. Event Triggers" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">39.4. A Complete Trigger Example</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="trigger-interface.html" title="39.3. Writing Trigger Functions in C">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="triggers.html" title="Chapter 39. Triggers">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 39. Triggers</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="event-triggers.html" title="Chapter 40. Event Triggers">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="TRIGGER-EXAMPLE"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">39.4. A Complete Trigger Example</h2></div></div></div><p>
+ Here is a very simple example of a trigger function written in C.
+ (Examples of triggers written in procedural languages can be found
+ in the documentation of the procedural languages.)
+ </p><p>
+ The function <code class="function">trigf</code> reports the number of rows in the
+ table <code class="structname">ttest</code> and skips the actual operation if the
+ command attempts to insert a null value into the column
+ <code class="structfield">x</code>. (So the trigger acts as a not-null constraint but
+ doesn't abort the transaction.)
+ </p><p>
+ First, the table definition:
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+CREATE TABLE ttest (
+ x integer
+);
+</pre><p>
+ </p><p>
+ This is the source code of the trigger function:
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+#include "postgres.h"
+#include "fmgr.h"
+#include "executor/spi.h" /* this is what you need to work with SPI */
+#include "commands/trigger.h" /* ... triggers ... */
+#include "utils/rel.h" /* ... and relations */
+
+PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
+
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(trigf);
+
+Datum
+trigf(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ TriggerData *trigdata = (TriggerData *) fcinfo-&gt;context;
+ TupleDesc tupdesc;
+ HeapTuple rettuple;
+ char *when;
+ bool checknull = false;
+ bool isnull;
+ int ret, i;
+
+ /* make sure it's called as a trigger at all */
+ if (!CALLED_AS_TRIGGER(fcinfo))
+ elog(ERROR, "trigf: not called by trigger manager");
+
+ /* tuple to return to executor */
+ if (TRIGGER_FIRED_BY_UPDATE(trigdata-&gt;tg_event))
+ rettuple = trigdata-&gt;tg_newtuple;
+ else
+ rettuple = trigdata-&gt;tg_trigtuple;
+
+ /* check for null values */
+ if (!TRIGGER_FIRED_BY_DELETE(trigdata-&gt;tg_event)
+ &amp;&amp; TRIGGER_FIRED_BEFORE(trigdata-&gt;tg_event))
+ checknull = true;
+
+ if (TRIGGER_FIRED_BEFORE(trigdata-&gt;tg_event))
+ when = "before";
+ else
+ when = "after ";
+
+ tupdesc = trigdata-&gt;tg_relation-&gt;rd_att;
+
+ /* connect to SPI manager */
+ if ((ret = SPI_connect()) &lt; 0)
+ elog(ERROR, "trigf (fired %s): SPI_connect returned %d", when, ret);
+
+ /* get number of rows in table */
+ ret = SPI_exec("SELECT count(*) FROM ttest", 0);
+
+ if (ret &lt; 0)
+ elog(ERROR, "trigf (fired %s): SPI_exec returned %d", when, ret);
+
+ /* count(*) returns int8, so be careful to convert */
+ i = DatumGetInt64(SPI_getbinval(SPI_tuptable-&gt;vals[0],
+ SPI_tuptable-&gt;tupdesc,
+ 1,
+ &amp;isnull));
+
+ elog (INFO, "trigf (fired %s): there are %d rows in ttest", when, i);
+
+ SPI_finish();
+
+ if (checknull)
+ {
+ SPI_getbinval(rettuple, tupdesc, 1, &amp;isnull);
+ if (isnull)
+ rettuple = NULL;
+ }
+
+ return PointerGetDatum(rettuple);
+}
+
+</pre><p>
+ </p><p>
+ After you have compiled the source code (see <a class="xref" href="xfunc-c.html#DFUNC" title="38.10.5. Compiling and Linking Dynamically-Loaded Functions">Section 38.10.5</a>), declare the function and the triggers:
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+CREATE FUNCTION trigf() RETURNS trigger
+ AS '<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>'
+ LANGUAGE C;
+
+CREATE TRIGGER tbefore BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON ttest
+ FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION trigf();
+
+CREATE TRIGGER tafter AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON ttest
+ FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION trigf();
+</pre><p>
+ </p><p>
+ Now you can test the operation of the trigger:
+</p><pre class="screen">
+=&gt; INSERT INTO ttest VALUES (NULL);
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 0 rows in ttest
+INSERT 0 0
+
+-- Insertion skipped and AFTER trigger is not fired
+
+=&gt; SELECT * FROM ttest;
+ x
+---
+(0 rows)
+
+=&gt; INSERT INTO ttest VALUES (1);
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 0 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired after ): there are 1 rows in ttest
+ ^^^^^^^^
+ remember what we said about visibility.
+INSERT 167793 1
+vac=&gt; SELECT * FROM ttest;
+ x
+---
+ 1
+(1 row)
+
+=&gt; INSERT INTO ttest SELECT x * 2 FROM ttest;
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 1 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired after ): there are 2 rows in ttest
+ ^^^^^^
+ remember what we said about visibility.
+INSERT 167794 1
+=&gt; SELECT * FROM ttest;
+ x
+---
+ 1
+ 2
+(2 rows)
+
+=&gt; UPDATE ttest SET x = NULL WHERE x = 2;
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 2 rows in ttest
+UPDATE 0
+=&gt; UPDATE ttest SET x = 4 WHERE x = 2;
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 2 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired after ): there are 2 rows in ttest
+UPDATE 1
+vac=&gt; SELECT * FROM ttest;
+ x
+---
+ 1
+ 4
+(2 rows)
+
+=&gt; DELETE FROM ttest;
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 2 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired before): there are 1 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired after ): there are 0 rows in ttest
+INFO: trigf (fired after ): there are 0 rows in ttest
+ ^^^^^^
+ remember what we said about visibility.
+DELETE 2
+=&gt; SELECT * FROM ttest;
+ x
+---
+(0 rows)
+</pre><p>
+
+ </p><p>
+ There are more complex examples in
+ <code class="filename">src/test/regress/regress.c</code> and
+ in <a class="xref" href="contrib-spi.html" title="F.41. spi">spi</a>.
+ </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="trigger-interface.html" title="39.3. Writing Trigger Functions in C">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="triggers.html" title="Chapter 39. Triggers">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="event-triggers.html" title="Chapter 40. Event Triggers">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">39.3. Writing Trigger Functions in C </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 40. Event Triggers</td></tr></table></div></body></html> \ No newline at end of file