RE: Trigger Question

Of course. Silly me.

At 12:54 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
>Wolfgang,
>
> Yes you may, within the trigger only, change values of that row
> only. it's known as
>
> :new.<column_name> := <whatever>;
>
> >If so is it ok to call a package in the trigger that selects that row and
> >changes some values in the row?
>
>a) it is not so and
>b) 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.
>
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