Re: Command Triggers

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > We have a big user community and what _you_ want for this feature is
> > only a small part of our decision on what is needed.  Robert's concern
> > that this might not be useful enough for the general use-cases people
> > want is a legitimate, if difficult to hear, analysis.
> 
> Agreed, his concern is legitimate.  Now, I've never been trying to
> implement a generic event trigger system and I don't know what it would
> take to implement such a beast.
> 
> Transaction BEGIN, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK triggers anyone?  not me?:)
> 
> Exploring if my proposal would be a pain to maintain once we have a fully
> generic event trigger system someday is legitimate, asking me to design
> both the generic event system and the command triggers so that they fit
> in is just asking for too much.

Agreed.  I am not against this addition, just pointing out that we have
to be careful.

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