RE: Data base triggers

[Hartman Richard <richard.hartman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have triggers that default fields if they were not entered, which does
not cause the trigger to fire again because the trigger is already editing
the fields. 
The trigger only fires once per record when executed, so on the record that
was changed, anything the trigger does will only occur once after it is
triggered. 

Richard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Tufankjian [SMTP:Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:46 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Data base triggers
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> Is it possible to have a trigger program update the record whose update
> triggered it without having it re-trigger itself infinitly?
> 
> I know that's an awfully long sentence so I'll try to give an example.
> 1.  A record is updated in a file
> 2.  The update triggers a program
> 3.  The trigger program updates a timestamp field, for example.
> 
> Would step 3 cause the trigger program to execute again?
> 
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