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Re: Triggers on system catalog

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
Cc: Shridhar Polas <shridharpolas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-30T00:21:04Z
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On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:
> A proposal to adding triggers to system catalog tables won't be
> terribly popular.

Well, I'd support it if I thought it had any chance of actually working, but I don't.

I do think we need some kind way of capturing DDL events, though. I wonder if the object-access-hook stuff KaiGai and I did to support SE-PostgreSQL could be extended to meet this need...

...Robert