I wrote:
> I wouldn't say that it's *fundamentally* new, but nonethless it disturbs
> me that this proposal has pg_dump assembling CREATE FUNCTION commands in
> very different ways depending on the server version. I'd rather see us
> continuing to build the bulk of the command the same as before, and
> introduce new behavior only for deparsing the function body.
BTW, a concrete argument for doing it that way is that if you make a
backend function that does the whole CREATE-FUNCTION-building job in
exactly the way pg_dump wants it, that function is nigh useless for
any other client with slightly different requirements. A trivial
example here is that I don't think we want to become locked into
the proposition that psql's \ef and \sf must print functions exactly
the same way that pg_dump would.
regards, tom lane
