On 2015-02-25 10:43:57 +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote: > > While looking at event triggers, I noticed that, contrary to basic triggers, > arguments are not allowed. > > However, the example in the documentation with an hour-based filtering of > ddl commands suggest some handling of arguments would be useful so as to > allow more generic event triggers. > > So I have a question: is there a particular reason why arguments were not > provided in the first place?
Yea. The existing trigger argument mechanims is extremely odd implementation wise - they don't have real datatypes and aren't passed via the normal parameter passing mechanism. IIRC we discussed this back when it was introduced and decided against introducing for now. I think the whole trigger argument infrastructure, even for normal triggers, should be rewritten. After that we could think of adding it for event triggers. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
