12.13. NEW
Record with the inserted or updated values of a row
Available inPSQL — triggers only,
DSQL — RETURNING clause of UPDATE, UPDATE OR INSERT and MERGE
TypeRecord type
Syntax
|NEW.column_name
Table 12.5.
NEW Parameters| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
column_name | Column name to access |
NEW contains the new version of a database record that has just been inserted or updated.
NEW is read-only in AFTER triggers.
In multi-action triggers NEW is always available.
However, if the trigger is fired by a DELETE, there will be no new version of the record.
In that situation, reading from NEW will always return NULL;
writing to it will cause a runtime exception.