At 08:26 PM 21-07-00 -0400, you wrote:

>Ah! Smoke and mirrors! There is really only one actual table --
>the base table. The descendent tables are virtual -- views -- of
>the base table. Other than a little hackery to keep descendents
>of a different branch from firing (and probably a few other
>annoyances), the existing mechanisms all work. So the answer is:
>there is only one trigger on exactly one physical base table.

This sounds > and > like AS/400...

Helen
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