Re: [HACKERS] Hooks

On 28 December 2016 at 12:15, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:

> Can we reduce the scope of this to a manageable starting point? I'm guessing
> that all existing hooks share certain characteristics that it'd be pretty
> easy to detect. If you can detect the hook (which I guess means finding a
> static variable with hook in the name) then you can verify that there's an
> appropriate comment block. I'm guessing someone familiar with tools like
> doxygen could set that up without too much effort, and I'd be surprised if
> the community had a problem with it.

Lets just make sure the comment blocks are nice and grep-able too.

I think this is a great idea FWIW. Discovering the extension points
within Pg isn't easy.

Callbacks aren't easy to find either.

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