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42.7. Event Trigger Procedures in PL/Tcl

Event trigger procedures can be written in PL/Tcl. PostgreSQL requires that a procedure that is to be called as an event trigger must be declared as a function with no arguments and a return type of event_trigger.

The information from the trigger manager is passed to the procedure body in the following variables:

$TG_event

The name of the event the trigger is fired for.

$TG_tag

The command tag for which the trigger is fired.

The return value of the trigger procedure is ignored.

Here's a little example event trigger procedure that simply raises a NOTICE message each time a supported command is executed:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tclsnitch() RETURNS event_trigger AS $$
  elog NOTICE "tclsnitch: $TG_event $TG_tag"
$$ LANGUAGE pltcl;

CREATE EVENT TRIGGER tcl_a_snitch ON ddl_command_start EXECUTE PROCEDURE tclsnitch();