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Re: Trigger reference table error
Posted by: Roland Bouman
Date: September 14, 2005 04:20PM

It works for me. To be sure, this is what i did:

use test;

create table t1 (name varchar(10), type int);

insert into t1(name)values ('a');

create table t2(type int, name varchar(10));

insert into t2 values (1,'a'),(2,'b');

delimiter $$

create trigger burt1 before update on t1 for each row begin
declare v_type int;
select type into v_type from t2 where name = new.name;
set new.type = v_type;
end;
$$

update t1 set name = 'b' where type is null$$

select * from t1$$
+------+------+
| name | type |
+------+------+
| b | 2 |
+------+------+

The trigger even fires when no colum needs to be updated:

update t2 set type = 3 where type = 2;

update t1 set name = 'b' where type =2$$

select * from t1$$
+------+------+
| name | type |
+------+------+
| b | 3 |
+------+------+

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