Of course, makes sense, which is why I made the feature request I did (ie, search). Would you consider adding regex expressions to the search?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info>wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 21:47 -0500, Michael Shapiro wrote: > > What motivated me to ask for this feature was that I was looking to > > see if the dependents/dependencies tabs > > on function would show all the objects that use the function and the > > objects that the functions uses, including other functions, views, > > etc. > > Those relationships, I realize, are not explicitly maintained by > > Postgres, but if PgAdmin could emulate that, it would be great. > > But probably hard, so the search was the next best thing. > > > > Hard is not the issue. The dependents/depencies tabs are for > dependencies as given by PostgreSQL. It won't change. > > > Given that functions have multiple signatures (same function name with > > a variable number of args), I'd like to be able to find all the places > > that one variant of the function is used. For example if there is a > > function A with two variants: A(int,int) and A(int, text) -- I'd like > > to be able to see where > > A(int, text) is used. > > > > That won't happen. It's too complicated. What I can do is search for a > specific string. Begin able to check if A(int, int) is used in this > function, but not function A(int, text) means we need to add something > that will understand the PL/pgsql code. I won't work on that. You can if > you want, but I won't. > > The idea I want to work on is to search specific string in a source > code, that's all. > > > -- > Guillaume > http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info > http://www.dalibo.com > >
