Trigger with multiple WHEN conditions

Question

How do I include the columns I need to monitor? I.e. instead of one WHEN condition I want to have 3 WHEN conditions:

CREATE  TRIGGER freeradius.insert_into_day_summations 
     BEFORE INSERT ON freeradius.day_guiding_usage
     FOR EACH ROW 
     WHEN (OLD.col1 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col1)
     WHEN (OLD.col2 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col2)
     WHEN (OLD.col3 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col3)
EXECUTE procedure update_sessioninfo();

Answer 1

Form a single expression with OR or AND - depending on whether you want to trigger when all conditions are met or when either one condition is met:

CREATE TRIGGER update_day_summations  -- see below
BEFORE UPDATE ON freeradius.day_guiding_usage
FOR EACH ROW 
WHEN (OLD.col1 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col1
   OR OLD.col2 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col2
   OR OLD.col3 IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.col3)
EXECUTE procedure update_sessioninfo();

It's just a boolean expression, can involve all columns of the row.
However, your expressions only make sense for UPDATE, not for INSERT. There is no OLD record for inserts. The manual on CREATE TRIGGER:

condition

A Boolean expression that determines whether the trigger function will actually be executed. If WHEN is specified, the function will only be called if the condition returns true. In FOR EACH ROW triggers, the WHEN condition can refer to columns of the old and/or new row values by writing OLD.column_name or NEW.column_name respectively. Of course, INSERT triggers cannot refer to OLD and DELETE triggers cannot refer to NEW.

And the trigger name itself cannot be schema-qualified. Quoting the manual once more:

name

The name to give the new trigger. This must be distinct from the name of any other trigger for the same table. The name cannot be schema-qualified

Bold emphasis mine.

Answer 2

TG_WHEN

Data type text; a string of BEFORE, AFTER, or INSTEAD OF, depending on the trigger's definition.

here is a link may use

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/plpgsql-trigger.html