CREATE TABLE versioning (a bigint, "b b" date, sys_period tstzrange); -- Insert some data before versioning is enabled. INSERT INTO versioning (a, sys_period) VALUES (1, tstzrange('-infinity', NULL)); INSERT INTO versioning (a, sys_period) VALUES (2, tstzrange('2000-01-01', NULL)); CREATE TABLE versioning_history (a bigint, "b b" date, c date, sys_period tstzrange); CREATE TRIGGER versioning_trigger BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON versioning FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE versioning('sys_period', 'versioning_history', false); -- Insert + Update. BEGIN; INSERT INTO versioning (a) VALUES (3); UPDATE versioning SET a = 4 WHERE a = 3; SELECT a, "b b", lower(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning ORDER BY a, sys_period; SELECT * FROM versioning_history ORDER BY a, sys_period; COMMIT; -- Make sure that the next transaction's CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is different. SELECT pg_sleep(0.1); -- Multiple updates. BEGIN; UPDATE versioning SET a = 5 WHERE a = 4; UPDATE versioning SET "b b" = '2012-01-01' WHERE a = 5; SELECT a, "b b", lower(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning ORDER BY a, sys_period; SELECT a, "b b", c, upper(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning_history ORDER BY a, sys_period; COMMIT; -- Make sure that the next transaction's CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is different. SELECT pg_sleep(0.1); -- Insert + Delete. BEGIN; INSERT INTO versioning (a) VALUES (6); DELETE FROM versioning WHERE a = 6; SELECT a, "b b", lower(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning ORDER BY a, sys_period; SELECT a, "b b", c, upper(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning_history ORDER BY a, sys_period; END; -- Make sure that the next transaction's CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is different. SELECT pg_sleep(0.1); -- Update + Delete. BEGIN; UPDATE versioning SET "b b" = '2015-01-01' WHERE a = 5; DELETE FROM versioning WHERE a = 5; SELECT a, "b b", lower(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning ORDER BY a, sys_period; SELECT a, "b b", c, upper(sys_period) = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM versioning_history ORDER BY a, sys_period; END; DROP TABLE versioning; DROP TABLE versioning_history;