Horton
Menu

Re: [PATCH] A hook for session start

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

View thread
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-08-01T19:42:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2017-08-01 15:37:40 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/21/17 12:59, Robert Haas wrote:
> > That's an exceedingly-weak argument for rejecting this patch.  The
> > fact that you can probably hack around the lack of a hook for most
> > reasonable use cases is not an argument for having a hook that does
> > what people actually want to do.
> 
> Still nobody has presented a concrete use case so far.

Citus for example starts a background worker (performing
e.g. distributed deadlock detection) if the citus extension exists. We
atm need annoying hacks to do so when the first query is executed.

- Andres

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →

  1. Add hooks for session start and session end, take two