RE: Trigger Question

Wolfgang,

        Yes you may, within the trigger only, change values of that row only. it's known as

        :new.<column_name> := <whatever>;

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I'm sure I will be corrected if I'm wrong. Answers inline

At 12:24 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Firstly my apologies if this seems like a very *stupid* question but I'm a
>tad confused (and it's late in the evening)
>
>When an AFTER INSERT trigger is fired (row level) has the row been committed
>to the database at this stage?

No. You could raise an error as part of what the trigger does in order to reject the action.

>If so is it ok to call a package in the trigger that selects that row and
>changes some values in the row?

1. it is not so and
2. you can not do anything with that row (or that table for that matter) in either the trigger or any called package or procedure. You'll get a "mutating table" error.

>Thanks,
>
>N.
>

Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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