Re: Is it possible to use an EVENT TRIGGER to validate a TRIGGER?

Luís Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use an EVENT TRIGGER to validate a TRIGGER definition?
>
> What I want is to guarantee that the trigger is fired AFTER a STATEMENT, on
> INSERT or UPDATE but not on DELETE, like the following example:

What you can do with a C language function in 9.5 is to examine the
CreateTrigger struct and verify that it matches the conditions you want.
So, yes, it's possible, but not in plpgsql.

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