Guy Rouillier wrote:
> I have the following condition in a trigger function:
>
> IF (TG_OP = 'INSERT') OR (TG_OP = 'UPDATE' AND NEW.aggregate_flag
> != OLD.aggregate_flag)
>
> When I cause this trigger to execute on an insert, it complains that
> OLD is not defined yet. If I reformat this so I check the last
> condition in an IF nested in the "UPDATE" case, it works fine. From
> this, I'm concluding that pgsql conditions do not short circuit?
That is true, but it wouldn't have helped you anyway, because the error
is caught during the semantic analysis before the execution phase.
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Peter Eisentraut
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