Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
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>>Gerardo Herzig escribió:
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>>>Yes, the TRUNCATE statement is not sql ansi, maybe is a more low level
>>>thing than i think.
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>>TRUNCATE currently does not fire triggers, but that doesn't mean it's
>>impossible to do it. I think it would be fairly easy to add support
>>for that.
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>The entire point of TRUNCATE is to not do a table scan, so making it
>fire per-row triggers seems pretty misguided to me.
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>We could maybe make it fire per-statement ON DELETE triggers, but
>there's a future-proofing pitfall in that: someday it'd be nice
>for statement-level triggers to have access to the set of deleted rows,
>and then you'd be stuck either scanning the table or having TRUNCATE
>act differently from plain DELETE.
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>My feeling is that if you want to know what was deleted, you shouldn't
>use TRUNCATE.
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> regards, tom lane
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I 100% agree, i can live using delete instead, but i can't ensure the
whole team i work with will not use TRUNCATE. It was my bad naming the
thread with such a contradictory name, im just looking the way to
capture it in any form. I would even consider the posibility of
*ignoring* a TRUNCATE command, if thats possible.

Thanks you all, dudes!
Gerardo