| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] A hook for session start |
| Date: | 2017-08-01 19:55:17 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaoDgKgruAqbTLsDoGpa7p9F6Z5hfu7L8hkrTntwkLdjg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 7/21/17 12:59, Robert Haas wrote:
>> That's an exceedingly-weak argument for rejecting this patch. The
>> fact that you can probably hack around the lack of a hook for most
>> reasonable use cases is not an argument for having a hook that does
>> what people actually want to do.
>
> Still nobody has presented a concrete use case so far.
I've been asked for this at EDB, too. Inserting a row into some table
on each logon, for example.
A quick Google search found 6 previous requests for this feature, some
of which describe intended use cases:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4EBC6852.5030605@fuzzy.cz (2011)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHyXU0wrsYShxmwBxZSGYoiBJa%3DgzEJ17iAeRvaf_vA%2BcoH_qA%40mail.gmail.com
(2011)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BAY104-W513CF26C0046C9D28747B8D1DD0@phx.gbl
(2009, in Spanish)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/758d5e7f0803130227m558d32cdl7159bed00d21f084%40mail.gmail.com
(2008)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/001a01c48077%240b118e60%240200030a%40gendron.ca
(2004)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/F96SgcOrBLSAQV6uPDV00000a2b@hotmail.com
(2000)
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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