In a previous article about Trigger Parameters we have been using the extension hstore in order to compute some extra field in our records, where the fields used both for the computation and for storing the results were passed in as dynamic parameters. Today we’re going to see another trigger use case for hstore: we are going to record changes made to our tuples.
Sometimes you want to compute values automatically at
INSERT time, like for
example a
duration column out of a
start and an
end column, both
timestamptz. It’s easy enough to do with a
BEFORE TRIGGER on your table.
What’s more complex is to come up with a parametrized spelling of the
trigger, where you can attach the same
stored procedure to any table even
when the column names are different from one another.
