Re: Calling function (table_name, schema_name) within event trigger

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
Cc: susan(dot)hurst(at)brookhurstdata(dot)com, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Calling function (table_name, schema_name) within event trigger
Date: 2015-12-27 19:19:07
Message-ID: 4353.1451243947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de> writes:
> The problem is, that tg_table_name isn't declared within a event trigger.
> TG_TAG is defined, it contains the command, for instance CREATE TABLE.

Yeah. According to
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/plpgsql-trigger.html#PLPGSQL-EVENT-TRIGGER
only TG_TAG and TG_EVENT are defined inside PL/pgSQL event triggers.

So at present, you can only do very coarse event recording using
PL/pgSQL; if you want to do anything interesting you have to resort
to writing your event trigger in C. (And I think that even then,
9.4 did not offer very complete facilities for finding out what the
DDL command had done; 9.5 will provide more info.)

regards, tom lane

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