[CASSANDRA-19532] Allow operators to disable the execution of triggers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.1-alpha1
• Component/s: Local/Other
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All
• Impacts: Security

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/8d705b31e9a3f213e5eb296d4308e5b22b0e996c

Test and Documentation Plan

Unit tests and inline documentation

• Assignee: Abe Ratnofsky
• Reporter: Abe Ratnofsky

Authors

Abe Ratnofsky

Reviewers

Sam Tunnicliffe, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 04/Apr/24 21:38
• Updated: 16/Apr/24 09:23
• Resolved: 16/Apr/24 09:23

Description

Currently, triggers are discouraged but there's no explicit way to disable them. Similar configuration already exists to disable other features, such as "conf.materialized_views_enabled". There should be a means for operators to gracefully disable the creation and execution of triggers.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3240