Re: Hooks

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:19:11PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 28 December 2016 at 12:15, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Can we reduce the scope of this to a manageable starting point?
> > I'm guessing that all existing hooks share certain characteristics
> > that it'd be pretty easy to detect. If you can detect the hook
> > (which I guess means finding a static variable with hook in the
> > name) then you can verify that there's an appropriate comment
> > block. I'm guessing someone familiar with tools like doxygen could
> > set that up without too much effort, and I'd be surprised if the
> > community had a problem with it.
>
> Lets just make sure the comment blocks are nice and grep-able too.
>
> I think this is a great idea FWIW. Discovering the extension points
> within Pg isn't easy.
>
> Callbacks aren't easy to find either.

Should callbacks be another chapter in the docs?

Best,
David.
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