Re: Truncate Triggers

Decibel! wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:40:19AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > (for 8.4 ...)
> > I'd like to introduce triggers that fire when we issue a truncate:
> 
> Rather than focusing exclusively on TRUNCATE, how about "triggers" that
> fire whenever any kind of DDL operation is performed? (Ok, truncate is
> more DML than DDL, but still).

I don't think it makes sense in general.  For example, would we fire
triggers on CLUSTER?  Or on ALTER TABLE / SET STATISTICS?

TRUNCATE seems a special case that needs it.

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