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> When a function is used as a trigger, the dictionary
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD</TT
> contains trigger-related values:
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><TT
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> contains the event as a string:
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INSERT</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UPDATE</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DELETE</TT
>, or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
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> contains one of <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
>AFTER</TT
>, or
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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>TD["new"]</TT
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> For a row-level trigger, one or both of these fields contain
the respective trigger rows, depending on the trigger event.
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> contains the trigger name.
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><TT
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>TD["table_name"]</TT
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> contains the name of the table on which the trigger occurred.
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><TT
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>TD["table_schema"]</TT
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> contains the schema of the table on which the trigger occurred.
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><TT
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>TD["relid"]</TT
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> contains the OID of the table on which the trigger occurred.
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD["args"]</TT
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> If the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE TRIGGER</TT
> command
included arguments, they are available in <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD["args"][0]</TT
> to
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD["args"][<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>n</I
></TT
>-1]</TT
>.
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> If <TT
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> is <TT
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> or
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INSTEAD OF</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD["level"]</TT
> is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ROW</TT
>, you can
return <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>None</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"OK"</TT
> from the
Python function to indicate the row is unmodified,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"SKIP"</TT
> to abort the event, or if <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TD["event"]</TT
>
is <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
> you can return
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