On 7/23/08, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > At 2008-07-17 18:28:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  >> It wouldn't take a whole lot to convince me that a pg_get_functiondef
>  >> would be useful, although I don't foresee either of those applications
>  >> wanting to use it because of their backward-compatibility constraints.
>
> > What would the function return? "CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ..."? Would
>  > that be good enough for everyone who might want to call it?
>
> I think I'd go with CREATE FUNCTION for simplicity.  It would be easy
>  enough for something like \ef to splice in OR REPLACE before shipping
>  the command back to the server.

Please make it use full qualified names (schema.name) for both
function name and result types.  Current search_path juggling
the pg_dump does is major PITA.

-- 
marko

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