Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?

Hello

theoretically you can have trigger on any statement, but I am not sure
about conformance with std. But, you can wrap TRUNCATE statement into
some procedure, and then call this procedure with some other actions.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On 08/01/2008, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
> gherzig(at)fmed(dot)uba(dot)ar (Gerardo Herzig) writes:
> > Hi all. Acording to the docs, TRUNCATE will not fire a DELETE trigger
> > on the table being truncated.
> > There is a way to capture a TRUNCATE in any way?
>
> I think there's some sort of "to do" on that...
>
> It ought to be not *too* difficult (I imagine!) to be able to
> associate a trigger with the TRUNCATE action, and therefore run some
> stored function any time TRUNCATE takes place.
>
> For the Slony-I replication system, it would be attractive for this to
> lead to attaching two functions:
> - One function would return an exception so that TRUNCATE against
> a subscriber node would fail...
>
> - Another would pretty much be as simple as submitting an event;
> perform createEvent('_ourcluster', 'TRUNCATE_TABLE', table_id);
>
> A new event, TRUNCATE_TABLE, would do a TRUNCATE against the
> subscribers.
>
> This represents a pretty easy enhancement, given the new kind of
> trigger.
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