Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] A hook for session start

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Don't we have that timestamp already?
>
> What practical use cases are there for acting post-auth but that can't wait
> until the user tries to do something?

Have, yes; record, no.

> Can a user do anything remotely interesting or useful without hitting either
> ExecutorStart_hook or ProcessUtility_hook? They can parse queries I guess
> but you could just set your hook up in the parser instead. If you hook the
> parser all they can do is open an idle session and sit there...

That's an exceedingly-weak argument for rejecting this patch.  The
fact that you can probably hack around the lack of a hook for most
reasonable use cases is not an argument for having a hook that does
what people actually want to do.

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