Re: Event Triggers: adding information

On 01/18/2013 10:34 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-01-18 10:31:28 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 01/18/2013 09:33 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> I have no problem requiring C code to use the even data, be it via
>>> hooks or via C functions called from event triggers. The problem I
>>> have with putting in some hooks is that I doubt that you can find
>>> sensible spots with enough information to actually recreate the DDL
>>> for a remote system without doing most of the work for command triggers.
>> Is that so much of a problem if it's OK to break it between major
>> versions? Maybe require compilation with -DPG_NON_FORWARD_COMPATIBLE to
>> make the hooks visible in the headers, so nobody can claim they didn't know?
> I can't follow the connection between what you quote from my mail and
> what you are saying ;)
... in which case I probably misunderstood part of the discussion. I'm
trying to skim things fairly quickly in order to keep up and continue
working through the CF backlog.

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