We now have a Postgres function that can handle creating a profile for a user. In this video, we implement a Postgres trigger to listen to INSERT events on the auth.users table and call our create_profile_for_user function. This will ensure that every new user that logs into our application has an associated profile.

Triggers are a super powerful feature of PostgreSQL! When combined with Supabase real-time - covered later in the course - our applications can have multiple users changing data in the db, and UIs automatically updating without refreshing the page.