Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option
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Msg-id CA+U5nMJ7JMp3cVj=sYAqEEsVF4ofjd9rGUAaVauz2Fwf+fMKWA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 5 December 2012 22:21, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>>> CREATE EVENT TRIGGER my_event_trigger
>>>     ON table_rewrite
>>>     EXECUTE PROCEDURE consider_whether_to_throw_an_error();
>>
>> +1, I was just thinking that myself.
>
> +1, and I think that can happen for 9.3, as soon as we agree on the list
> of code points where we want that event to fire. ALTER TABLE variants
> that are rewriting the heap, sure. CLUSTER? VACUUM FULL? TRUNCATE?

Events needed
* Table rewrite
* Index rebuild
* Relation scan (index/table/toast etc)
* AccessExclusiveLock

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