Re: Command Triggers patch v18

On 29 March 2012 13:30, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> I'll go make that happen, and still need input here. We first want to
> have command triggers on specific commands or ANY command, and we want
> to implement 3 places from where to fire them.
>
> Here's a new syntax proposal to cope with that:
>
>     create command trigger before COMMAND_STEP of alter table
>          execute procedure snitch();
>
>  - before the process utility switch, with only command tag and parse
>   tree
>
>     create command trigger foo before start of alter table
>          execute procedure snitch();
>
>  - before running the command, after having done basic error checks,
>   security checks, name lookups and locking, with all information
>
>     create command trigger before execute of alter table
>          execute procedure snitch();
>
>  - after having run the command
>
>     create command trigger foo before end of alter table
>          execute procedure snitch();

Is it necessary to add this complexity in this version?  Can't we keep
it simple but in a way that allows the addition of this later?  The
testing of all these new combinations sounds like a lot of work.

--
Thom