On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:20:23PM -0400, Mihai Gheorghiu wrote: > I want to write a function that finds out whether a function already exists. > Is that possible? How?
select * from pg_proc where proname = ??; you can run psql with switch -E, then it shows intenal queries it performs. Eg., for \df - 'show functions' it does: $ psql -E marko=# \df ********* QUERY ********* SELECT format_type(p.prorettype, NULL) as "Result", p.proname as "Function", oidvectortypes(p.proargtypes) as "Arguments" FROM pg_proc p WHERE p.prorettype <> 0 and (pronargs = 0 or oidvectortypes(p.proargtypes) <> '') ORDER BY "Function", "Result", "Arguments" ************************* from there you can hack further. -- marko ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org