Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: >> Sorry, I meant any command trigger. It's because none of the commands >> can be run on a standby, so the triggers don't seem appropriate.
> I'm not convinced. Right now, it's fairly useless - all the triggers > could possibly do is throw an error, and an error is going to get > thrown anyway, so it's only a question of which error message the user > will see. But we discussed before the idea of adding a capability for > BEFORE triggers to request that the actual execution of the command > get skipped, and then it's possible to imagine this being useful. Um, surely the "you can't do that in a read-only session" error is going to get thrown long before the command trigger could be called? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers