Re: Event Triggers and Dropping Objects

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 10:50:14AM +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:38 PM Miles Elam <miles(dot)elam(at)productops(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > The event trigger firing matrix lists tags like DROP TABLE and DROP FUNCTION are listed below the ddl_command_end event, but when I created a basic audit table and event trigger, they don't seem to fire. I know sql_drop exists, but again the matrix lists DROP commands in the ddl_command_end event.
>
> Yes, I think this is a little misleading:
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/event-trigger-matrix.html>.
> The ddl_command_end is issued, and the function is invoked, but
> pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands() returns NULL on such invocation
> because sql_drop is the event with the attached data.

Do the Postgres docs need improvement here?

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