Re: database/schema level triggers?

There's nothing like that, but the good news is that you can have
multiple triggers call the same trigger function, and it wouldn't be
*too* hard to script the creation of all those triggers based on the
info in information_schema.tables.

On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:

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> On Mar 8, 2006, at 23:53 , Tomi NA wrote:
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>> On 3/8/06, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 22:11 , Tomi NA wrote:
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>> > Does anything like that exist in postgresql?
>> > It'd rid me of a whole lot of work if it did...and I'd still have
>> > plenty more to keep me busy. :)
>>
>> What do you mean by database/schema level triggers? Could you give an
>> example of what you're trying to do? Perhaps someone on the list has
>> experience doing something similar.
>>
>> Well, it seemed natural to me that I should be able to *not*
>> specify a target table for a trigger and so make a trigger fire on
>> any event in a wider context.
>> I've seen oracle users have at their disposal something along the
>> lines of:
>> CREATE TRIGGER my_trigger AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON
>> DATABASE EXECUTE something()
>> A similar construct on the schema level might be useful, as well.
>>
>> That's what I was interested in, but now I've gone and done most
>> of the boring, repetitive work anyway so it's now of academic or
>> possible future interest to me, instead of immediate interest. I'm
>> still eager to know, though. :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tomislav
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