Re: [PATCH] A hook for session start

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> 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.
>
> I've been asked for this at EDB, too.  Inserting a row into some table
> on each logon, for example.
>
> A quick Google search found 6 previous requests for this feature, some
> of which describe intended use cases:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4EBC6852.5030605@fuzzy.cz (2011)
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHyXU0wrsYShxmwBxZSGYoiBJa%3DgzEJ17iAeRvaf_vA%2BcoH_qA%40mail.gmail.com
> (2011)
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BAY104-W513CF26C0046C9D28747B8D1DD0@phx.gbl
> (2009, in Spanish)
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/758d5e7f0803130227m558d32cdl7159bed00d21f084%40mail.gmail.com
> (2008)
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/001a01c48077%240b118e60%240200030a%40gendron.ca
> (2004)
>
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/F96SgcOrBLSAQV6uPDV00000a2b@hotmail.com
> (2000)
>

Hi all,

I'm sending a new rebased patches and added tests to src/tests/modules as
suggested before.

Regards,

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