Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-07-04 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Applied with some tweaks. Thanks! There's a typo I made that I see only now: + varlistentry + termstructfieldtg_event//term I think that should be event, not tg_event, because we're listing the fields for the EventTriggerData structure and

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-07-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 10:15 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: There's a typo I made that I see only now: + varlistentry + termstructfieldtg_event//term Fixed. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-07-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 17:17 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Please find attached a patch against the documentation, containing a full code example of what I had in mind. Applied with some tweaks. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-06-20 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Random observation in this general area: Regular triggers provide the field Trigger *tg_trigger in the trigger data, which allows you to get the trigger name, OID, and such. Event triggers don't expose anything comparable. That should perhaps be

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-06-19 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Looks pretty good, but the description of the parsetree field was obviously copied from somewhere else. I would fix it myself, but I don't know what kind of assurances we want to offer about what's in that field. Oh, oops. I think we should direct

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-06-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Random observation in this general area: Regular triggers provide the field Trigger *tg_trigger in the trigger data, which allows you to get the trigger name, OID, and such. Event triggers don't expose anything comparable. That should perhaps be added. Also, as I'm maybe about the fourth

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-06-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 17:17 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: At this point, all that is appropriate is some documentation of the C API. If the contrib example you have in mind is short enough, it might as well become part of the example in the

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-05-06 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: At this point, all that is appropriate is some documentation of the C API. If the contrib example you have in mind is short enough, it might as well become part of the example in the documentation. Please find attached a patch against the

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-26 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: It seems pretty straightforward and useful, so I'm not sure where your hesitation is coming from. If you're talking about my hesitation to consider what we have now as marketing material worthy, it comes from the fact that I don't have a use case where I

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: - what about support for PLs other than C and PLpgSQL? It used to be part of the patch, and I don't understand well enough the development calendar to guess if I'm supposed to extract that from earlier patch or if

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Please also note that the first series of patches did include the support code for all the core PL, but Robert didn't feel like commiting that and no other commiter did step up. Of course, the chances of that would

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 4/18/13 11:31 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: The only questions in this thread are: - only docs or docs + contrib example? At this point, all that is appropriate is some documentation of the C API. If the contrib example you have in mind is short enough, it might as well become part of the

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Offhand, that seems about enough, but I'm just beginning to explore. I'm interested into hearing about any such use case… Chances are, event triggers will end up somewhere near the top of the release announcements, so we should have a consistent

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Dimitri Fontaine escribió: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Offhand, that seems about enough, but I'm just beginning to explore. I'm interested into hearing about any such use case… Chances are, event triggers will end up somewhere near the top of the release announcements, so

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 4/18/13 5:05 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Offhand, that seems about enough, but I'm just beginning to explore. I'm interested into hearing about any such use case… Without going into too many details (because I don't have them yet), I was thinking

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com writes: You can be as much silent as you want in marketing materials (though maybe Berkus will disagree with you about being silent there), but it is not admissible to be silent in the documentation or pretend the feature is not there. Whatever got

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Without going into too many details (because I don't have them yet), I was thinking about triggering an external test suite whenever there is a schema change in the database. So if all you want to know about is that something did change in the schema to

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Dimitri Fontaine escribió: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com writes: You can be as much silent as you want in marketing materials (though maybe Berkus will disagree with you about being silent there), but it is not admissible to be silent in the documentation or pretend the feature

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-17 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: I'm specifically looking for C API documentation, along the lines of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/trigger-interface.html. The current chapter on event triggers might as well be ripped out and folded into the CREATE EVENT TRIGGER

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr writes: I'm not sure about ripping it out, it does not sound like a good idea to me. It needs some addition and C level examples yes. The plan was to build a contrib module as an example, that would cancel any (supported) command you try to run by means

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 4/17/13 5:41 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: I'm not sure about ripping it out, it does not sound like a good idea to me. It needs some addition and C level examples yes. The plan was to build a contrib module as an example, that would cancel any (supported) command you try to run by means of

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-17 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Well, if documentation had been available well before beta, other procedural languages might have gained support for event triggers. If it's not being documented, it might not happen very soon. It's been a moving target for the last two years, and

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 4/17/13 3:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: It would have been good to have at least one untrusted language with event trigger support, so that you can hook in external auditing or logging systems. With the existing PL/pgSQL support, the possible actions are a bit limited. Well, you do

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-16 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I'm having trouble finding documentation about how to write event triggers. The chapter in the documentation http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/event-triggers.html says they can be written in C or supported

Re: [HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 4/16/13 7:49 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I'm having trouble finding documentation about how to write event triggers. The chapter in the documentation http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/event-triggers.html says

[HACKERS] event trigger API documentation?

2013-04-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I'm having trouble finding documentation about how to write event triggers. The chapter in the documentation http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/event-triggers.html says they can be written in C or supported PLs, but does not explain it any further. Is there any documentation for it?