Re: tracking owner of extension-managed objects

From: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tracking owner of extension-managed objects
Date: 2015-12-21 20:09:48
Message-ID: 56785C8C.6060006@anastigmatix.net
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On 12/21/2015 02:30 PM, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 12/21/2015 12:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> all, since we don't provide a way for extensions to hook into the DROP
>> mechanisms. Perhaps that should be fixed.)
>
> That is literally *the very next* e-mail I was going to compose.
>
> I was looking at pg_(sh)?depend, ...
> I can probably cobble around this with some
> combination of triggers on my own table ('cause that works) and
> event triggers to grovel through the parse trees of commands that
> could affect the system object,

right, I can't event-trigger on role commands either, can I?

What's the lightest-weight object I can create that has an owner,
and whose disappearance I can be notified of?

-Chap

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