Hi, If we want the application developers to take advantage from events occurring on a table then we could reuse a plugin from drizzle database which one of friends developed as part of gsoc last year. This plugin allows the drizzle client to call a function wait_for(type_of_event, table_name, num_of_events, time_out) and returns when this event occurs in the table the given number fo times. Currently drizzle uses this in their replication slave as well. I am not sure how stable this plugin is. p.s.: I apologize for sending so many emails. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Savita Agrawal wrote:

Hi Kalyan,

Event support is already there in mariadb. Events are the jobs which are run in certain time interval. I am asking about a new project idea which is mentioned in mariadb gsoc page. It is unclear to me, what are the use cases of user defined events( Events and user defined events are not the same, simply because it is mentioned in the page as a new project idea. :) )

As far as I know user defined events are supposed to save applications resources used in polling. But I think the application developer could have created a trigger and udf and use lib_mysqludf_syshttps://github.com/mysqludf/lib_mysqludf_sys#readme to invoke external application. But there are security issues in this method. Is it the primary/only reason for this project?

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Kalyankumar Ramaseshan < rkalyankumar@gmail.com> wrote:

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you should read the following post:

http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-create-mysql-events/

-- Regards, Kalyankumar Ramaseshan

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Savita Agrawal wrote:

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Hi,

what is the difference between a trigger and user defined event?

In postgres there is a clear distintion between trigger and event trigger. Triggers are activated when DML statements are executed

whereas event triggers are activated when DDL statements are executed.

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But in soliddb (from which our post in JIRA page is inspired), it seems

like user defined events can be activated for DML statements. What is it that can't be done with triggers and can be done with user defined event?

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Why is the restriction that events can only be posted and received by

stored procedures only?

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Cheers, Savita

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Hi, Savita! On Mar 09, Savita Agrawal wrote:

As far as I know user defined events are supposed to save applications resources used in polling. But I think the application developer could have created a trigger and udf and use lib_mysqludf_sys to invoke external application. But there are security issues in this method. Is it the primary/only reason for this project?

It has little to do with external applications. The idea is to be able to wait for something to happen. It might be used with external applications, I agree: WAIT EVENT WHEN mysqldump_finished BEGIN ... END and then run mysqldump (in another window) that will POST mysqldump_finished. But waiting could also be useful without external applications. Regards, Sergei