Re: sql_drop Event Trigger

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-06T16:20:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dimitri Fontaine escribió:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> > I might be forgetting something, but doesn't dependency.c work by first
> > constructing a list of all the objects it's going to drop, and only then
> > dropping them?  Could we inject a "pre deletion" event trigger call at
> > the point where the list is completed?

Yes, this is what I'm proposing.

> What happens if the event trigger itself deletes objects? From the list?

I replied to this above: raise an error.  (How to do that is an open
implementation question, but I proposed a simple idea upthread).

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