TypeORM EventSubscribe triggered at any event - postgresql

Question

Hi have created a EventSubscriber in TypeORM to listen to a specific entity and it's events on database level (quite straightforward)
But this Subscriber is being triggered at any CRUD operation in any table, or maybe fired due to indirect relations with the targeted entity (hopefully not) without the targeted entity/table not being CRUD-ed
This is how my subscriber looks:
#EventSubscriber()
export class ImpactViewSubscriber
implements EntitySubscriberInterface<TargetedEntity>
{
logger: Logger = new Logger(ImpactViewSubscriber.name);
listenTo(): any {
return TargetedEntity;
}
afterTransactionCommit(event: TransactionCommitEvent): Promise<any> | void {
this.logger.log(`Event subscriber fired...`);
return event.queryRunner.query(
`some query...`,
);
}
}
And it's (apparently) properly imported in typeorm.config.ts
....
subscribers: [join(__dirname, '..', '**/*.subscriber.{ts,js}')],
So for some reason the logic inside afterTransactionCommit() is being triggered at any interaction of any table, also when I first run the app (which is annoying).
What am I doing wrong? I just want to fire the logic when any CRUD operation is donde to my target entity, ideally after a transaction, as my target entity will only receive bulk INSERTS or DELETES
Any idea of where is the error?
Thanks in advance
UPDATE
I also tested using afterInsert() and afterRemove()
which does not make the logic get triggered at any event of any other table, but it is being triggered for each row inserted in the target table. And since I only have bulk operations, this is not useful.
My use cases are: Bulk inserts in the table, and bulk deletes by cascade. I am making sure those happens on a single transaction. Any ideas as to what can I do using typeorm avoiding to manually create specific DB triggers or similar?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I know this is a quite old post.
But have you tried to remove :any from the listener call?
listenTo() {
return TargetedEntity;
}