Decibel! wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:40:19AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > > (for 8.4 ...) > > I'd like to introduce triggers that fire when we issue a truncate: > > Rather than focusing exclusively on TRUNCATE, how about "triggers" that > fire whenever any kind of DDL operation is performed? (Ok, truncate is > more DML than DDL, but still).
I don't think it makes sense in general. For example, would we fire triggers on CLUSTER? Or on ALTER TABLE / SET STATISTICS? TRUNCATE seems a special case that needs it. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
