Trigger Function Problem

Hi,

I need some urgent help with an oracle trigger.

I have trigger which inserts a row into a Price history table every time there is an insert or delete
on a Price table

The trigger is :

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER PRICE_HIST_TRIG
after update or delete on PRICE
for each row
begin
INSERT INTO PRICE_HIST
VALUES
(

ld.price_id,

ld.price,

ld.date,

ld.version
)

The PRICE_HIST table has a unique index on (price_id, date, version).

In my code I test to see if the price_id does not exists, if so, I set the version = 1 and and insert a row into the PRICE table.

If the price exists, I set version = version (of row found) + 1 and attempt to update the PRICE table.

The program is failing on updates.

I start with empty tables, the new inserts go in fine, but if there
is another price for same price_id , quite rightly an update is attempted, this fails on the
unique index for PRICE_HIST. From what I can see the old version should be one and the new version 2 (I've double checked this in the code).

It should be noted that on INSERT no entry is made into PRICE Hist, on update version 1 should have been carried over to the PRICE_HIST table but looks like it was not since the index failure.

Please help!

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[ September 26, 2004: Message edited by: Jeanne Boyarsky ]

Can you post the sql statements that you run in sql*plus? This may add more insight.