Re: Command Triggers

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Command Triggers
Date: 2011-12-18 14:21:31
Message-ID: 201112181421.pBIELVX28380@momjian.us
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Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > We have a big user community and what _you_ want for this feature is
> > only a small part of our decision on what is needed. Robert's concern
> > that this might not be useful enough for the general use-cases people
> > want is a legitimate, if difficult to hear, analysis.
>
> Agreed, his concern is legitimate. Now, I've never been trying to
> implement a generic event trigger system and I don't know what it would
> take to implement such a beast.
>
> Transaction BEGIN, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK triggers anyone? not me?:)
>
> Exploring if my proposal would be a pain to maintain once we have a fully
> generic event trigger system someday is legitimate, asking me to design
> both the generic event system and the command triggers so that they fit
> in is just asking for too much.

Agreed. I am not against this addition, just pointing out that we have
to be careful.

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