Re: How to watch for schema changes

On 12/3/18 1:53 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, Adrian,

>> Why? Just create the trigger once in a script. Event triggers are an
>> attribute of the database and stay with it until they are dropped. If
>> you want to turn then on and off use the ALTER  EVENT TRIGGER
>> ENABLE/DISABLE. If you insist on recreating them on each connection then:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/sql-dropeventtrigger.html
>> DROP EVENT TRIGGER [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
>> CREATE EVENT TRIGGER ...
> 
> I was hoping to create a software which will be just "install-and-use".
> No additional script running or database changes is required.

After I hit reply my subconscious kicked in and pointed out something:)

If there are no database changes why do you need to track schema changes?

> 
> But I will probably create it on every connection and delete on the
> disconnect (see above).
> 

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com