<title>Triggers</title>
<para>
- <productname>Postgres</productname> has various client interfaces
- such as Perl, Tcl, Python and C, as well as three
- <firstterm>Procedural Languages</firstterm>
- (PL). It is also possible
- to call C functions as trigger actions. Note that STATEMENT-level trigger
- events are not supported in the current version. You can currently specify
- BEFORE or AFTER on INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE of a tuple as a trigger event.
+ <productname>Postgres</productname> has various server-side function
+ interfaces. Server-side functions can be written in SQL, PLPGSQL,
+ TCL, or C. Trigger functions can be written in any of these
+ languages. Note that STATEMENT-level trigger events are not supported
+ in the current version. You can currently specify BEFORE or AFTER on
+ INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE of a tuple as a trigger event.
</para>
<sect1>
<term><replaceable>procedure</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The procedure name is the C function called.
+ The procedure name is the function called.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>