Re: Pet Peeves?

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:37:31PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote:

> Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>>>> Craig, what kind of "events" are you thinking about? Triggers are
>>>> already pieces of code that run upon "certain events", namely
>>>> insert, update or delete events. What others do you have in mind?
>>> That's a good point, actually. I can't think of much you can't do
>>> with a trigger (SECURITY DEFINER if necessary) on a table. Not
>>> thinking straight.
>>
>> I would find ON CONNECT/DISCONNECT triggers very useful. Probably
>> this is more similar to database-wide assertions.
>
> But a job scheduler would not help with that. Perhaps you intended your
> comment to fall into the "pet peeves" bucket rather than the "job
> scheduler" bucket.

Yep, just like the Subject suggested ;-)

The logic is a bit twisted but I was thinking "other kinds
of events - oh, I'd like to be able to make something happen
on this event".

Karsten
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