Re: Triggers on system catalog

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Shridhar Polas <shridharpolas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Triggers on system catalog
Date: 2011-03-30 13:49:26
Message-ID: AANLkTi=SZ5d86S_5f-GsgYiuDMgVqDcBSjFyCMXxUMcC@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> I do think we need some kind way of capturing DDL events, though. I wonder if the object-access-hook stuff KaiGai and I did to support SE-PostgreSQL could be extended to meet this need...
>
> My inclination would be 'probably', but it's not likely to really be the
> way we'd want to provide generalized DDL triggers..

I guess I was imagining that DDL triggers would be primarily important
for things like Slony, that are already writing C code anyway, but
maybe that's overly optimistic...

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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