Postgres trigger function: substitute value before insert or update - postgresql

Question

I've looked up pretty much everything I could find regarding this issue, but I still don't understand what is wrong with this trigger:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func_SubstitutePostLatLng_Upt()
RETURNS trigger AS
$BODY$
BEGIN
IF OLD.post_latlng IS NULL AND NEW.post_latlng IS NULL AND NEW.place_guid IS NOT NULL THEN
raise notice 'SELECT';
SELECT place.geom_center, place.city_guid
INTO NEW.post_latlng, NEW.city_guid
FROM public.place
WHERE (place.origin_id, place.place_guid) IN (VALUES (NEW.origin_id,NEW.place_guid));
raise notice 'Value db_geom: %', NEW.post_latlng;
raise notice 'Value db_city_guid: %', NEW.city_guid;
IF NEW.post_latlng IS NOT NULL THEN
NEW.post_geoaccuracy = 'place';
IF NEW.city_guid IS NOT NULL THEN
SELECT country_guid INTO NEW.country_guid
FROM public.city WHERE (origin_id, city_guid) IN (VALUES (NEW.origin_id,NEW.city_guid));
END IF;
END IF;
END IF;
RETURN NEW;
END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE
COST 100;
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trig_SubstitutePostLatLng_Upd on public.post;
CREATE TRIGGER trig_SubstitutePostLatLng_Upd
BEFORE UPDATE
ON public.post
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (pg_trigger_depth() < 1)
EXECUTE PROCEDURE func_SubstitutePostLatLng_Upt()
(I have a second similar trigger for insert)
The code is supposed to do the following:
On Update on table "post", check if no post_latlng is submitted (=NULL), and if yes, substitute post_latlng from table place (geom_center), if available.
However, no matter what I do, I get the following when updating an entry in table "post" (=triggering the above trigger):
NOTICE: SELECT
NOTICE: Value db_geom: <NULL>
NOTICE: Value db_city_guid: <NULL>
INSERT 0 1
Query returned successfully in 47 msec.
The test-data for place_guid, geom_center etc. is definitely available and both
raise notice 'Value db_geom: %', NEW.post_latlng;
raise notice 'Value db_city_guid: %', NEW.city_guid;
should not output NULL.

Answer 1

There were several smaller issues, it now works. Here is a more cleaner code that uses variables in between:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func_SubstitutePostLatLng_Upt()
RETURNS trigger AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
db_geom_center text;
db_city_guid text;
db_country_guid text;
BEGIN
IF OLD.post_latlng IS NULL AND NEW.post_latlng IS NULL AND NEW.place_guid IS NOT NULL THEN
SELECT place.geom_center, place.city_guid
INTO db_geom_center, db_city_guid
FROM public.place
WHERE (place.origin_id, place.place_guid) IN (VALUES (NEW.origin_id,NEW.place_guid));
IF db_geom_center IS NOT NULL THEN
NEW.post_latlng = db_geom_center;
NEW.post_geoaccuracy = 'place';
END IF;
IF db_city_guid IS NOT NULL THEN
NEW.city_guid = db_city_guid;
SELECT city.country_guid
INTO db_country_guid
FROM public.city
WHERE (city.origin_id, city.city_guid) IN (VALUES (NEW.origin_id,db_city_guid));
NEW.country_guid = db_country_guid;
END IF;
END IF;
RETURN NEW;
END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE
COST 100;