Hi! Make trigger function
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM +0300, "Christian Ohler" <ohler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,I'm trying to find a way to have Postgres tell me if the current transaction would modify database if I committed it now. I can live with a conservative approximation (sometimes – ideally, rarely – get a "yes" even though nothing would be modified, but never get a "no" even though there are pending modifications). It's acceptable (probably even desirable) if a no-op write operation like "UPDATE foo SET bar = 1 WHERE bar = 1" is considered a modification.(The use case is an audit log mechanism vaguely similar to pgMemento.)This sentence from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/view-pg-locks.html :> If a permanent ID is assigned to the transaction (which normally happens> only if the transaction changes the state of the database), it also holds> an exclusive lock on its permanent transaction ID until it ends.makes me think that I can perhaps do it as follows:SELECT count(*) FROM pg_locks WHERE pid=pg_backend_pid() AND locktype='transactionid' AND mode='ExclusiveLock' AND granted;Is that right? "Permanent transaction ID" refers to the XID, correct? Are there other, better ways? Are there ways to avoid false positives due to temp tables?Thanks in advance,Christian.
