Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option
Date: 2012-12-05 22:41:21
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJ7JMp3cVj=sYAqEEsVF4ofjd9rGUAaVauz2Fwf+fMKWA@mail.gmail.com
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On 5 December 2012 22:21, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)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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