Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?

Pavel Stehule wrote:

>On 08/01/2008, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
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>>gherzig(at)fmed(dot)uba(dot)ar (Gerardo Herzig) writes:
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>>>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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>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
Yes, the TRUNCATE statement is not sql ansi, maybe is a more low level
thing than i think.
Gerardo