-- This trigger is called every time a comment is deleted, so the comment count for the page where the comment belong is updated CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION commentsDeleteTriggerFunction() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $trigger$ BEGIN UPDATE pages SET commentCount = commentCount - 1 WHERE domain = old.domain AND path = old.path; DELETE FROM comments WHERE parentHex = old.commentHex; RETURN NEW; END; $trigger$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;