Re: Hooks

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hooks
Date: 2016-12-28 04:19:11
Message-ID: CAMsr+YH-Z=S03Fj7pcOOGj3kuzXbGxEE+vbjP8M5oK7s16SUMA@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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