On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote:
> On 29 March 2012 13:30, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
>> I'll go make that happen, and still need input here. We first want to
>> have command triggers on specific commands or ANY command, and we want
>> to implement 3 places from where to fire them.
>>
>> Here's a new syntax proposal to cope with that:
>>
>>     create command trigger before COMMAND_STEP of alter table
>>          execute procedure snitch();
>>
>>  - before the process utility switch, with only command tag and parse
>>   tree
>>
>>     create command trigger foo before start of alter table
>>          execute procedure snitch();
>>
>>  - before running the command, after having done basic error checks,
>>   security checks, name lookups and locking, with all information
>>
>>     create command trigger before execute of alter table
>>          execute procedure snitch();
>>
>>  - after having run the command
>>
>>     create command trigger foo before end of alter table
>>          execute procedure snitch();
>
> Is it necessary to add this complexity in this version?  Can't we keep
> it simple but in a way that allows the addition of this later?  The
> testing of all these new combinations sounds like a lot of work.

I concur.  This is way more complicated than we should be trying to do
in version 1.

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