Re: Trying to Create a Trigger

[Andy Shellam]

>
> delimiter //
> create trigger jobposts_control
>  before delete on jobposts for each row
> begin
>    declare dummy varchar(255);
>    set @counted = (
>        select count(ad.adsource_id)
>        from adsource ad, jobposts jp
>        where ad.adsource_id = jp.adsource_id
>        and OLD.jobpost_id = jp.jobpost_id
>    );
>    if @counted >= 1 then SET dummy = 'Cannot delete this record'; end if;
> end //
> delimiter;
>
>
> Now I just have this error message:
>
> ERROR: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
> that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
> syntax to use near 'end //
> delimiter' at line 1
>
> Query = end
> //
> delimiter
>

I'm guessing it's the first semi-colon in your IF statement.  Does this 
work...?

   if @counted >= 1 then SET dummy = 'Cannot delete this record' end if;

Just a guess!

Andy.