Re: External Replication

Andres:

Thanks for the link on the GIT patch code.

I did a big major domo search and found some stuff related to command
triggers:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-03/msg00169.php

"Look into the new event triggers started recently." -

Are these command triggers currently in the 9.2.0 code base or is it in
a alpha 9.2.1xxx?

I searched the 9.2.0 code base and found nothing on CREATE TRIGGER that
had anything to do with other than TABLES and VIEWS.

I cannot wait for stable code to arrive, I need to add it today.

Since the hackers group is already working on this, I will not even try
to contribute this work, unless someone wants it.

marco

On 9/21/2012 1:19 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 08:12:26 PM md(at)rpzdesign(dot)com wrote:
>> Heikki:
>>
>> Thanks for the response. I am writing an external replication engine
>> and putting hooks into postgres to send "signals" via a unix socket to
>> the outside world.
>>
>> All of the logic and implementation will occur OUTSIDE the postgres
>> codebase and
>> will not interfere with any WAL based replication schemes.
>>
>> The usual "Trigger" level asynch replication does on not suffice since
>> it does not handle
>> new databases, new schemas, new tables, new indexes, alter everything,
>> new functions, etc.
>>
>> So I started putting into utility.c->xxx_ProcessUtility(..., stmt*
>> parsetree,....) so that discrete
>>
>> Does anybody have other ideas where to better locate the "Hooks" for
>> external replication/signaling
>> than utility.c?
> Look into the new event triggers started recently.
>
> Commits
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3855968f328918b6cd1401dd11d109d471a54d40
> and
> 3a0e4d36ebd7f477822d5bae41ba121a40d22ccc
>
> Look into earlier discussions around event/command triggers why putting stuff
> plainly into ProcessUtility is not all that helpful...
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres
>