Can I update New in before insert trigger in sqlite?

Question

For example:

create table test (id numeric, t date not null);

create trigger test_in
before insert on test
for each row
when New.t is null
begin
 -- set New.t = now();
end;

Set New.t didn't work, where can be only select/insert/update/delete stmt. I can not change the database structure (can set default value). After insert trigger also not suitable because of "not null" constrain. The only solution I've found:

insert into test values (New.id, now());
select raise(ignore);

test database for illustrative purposes only, in practice there are more complicated cases with calculated data. There may be something like this "update New set New.t = now()", or not?

Answer 1

No, you can't update NEW.

What I tend to do is use a VIEW with an INSTEAD OF trigger as mu is to short commented.

In your case the best solution may be to use an AFTER INSERT/UPDATE trigger WHEN NEW.t IS NULL to update t in the affected row(s):

CREATE TRIGGER test_in
AFTER INSERT ON test
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (NEW.t IS NULL)
BEGIN
   UPDATE test SET t = now() WHERE id = NEW.id;
END;

FYI, your id column should probably be declared as INTEGER PRIMARY KEY...