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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: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, Shridhar Polas <shridharpolas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-30T13:49:26Z
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> 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...
>
> My inclination would be 'probably', but it's not likely to really be the
> way we'd want to provide generalized DDL triggers..

I guess I was imagining that DDL triggers would be primarily important
for things like Slony, that are already writing C code anyway, but
maybe that's overly optimistic...

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Robert Haas
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