Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using a database that was restored from an earlier version > of PostgreSQL? I wonder if you're not getting the lanvalidator > function.
Ah-hah, that sounds like a good theory. He'd have had to have carried the DB forward from 7.4 or before, though, since plpgsql had a validator in 8.0. We've had repeated problems with PL languages stemming from the fact that pg_dump dumps them at a pretty low semantic level. Aside from this problem with adding a validator, we used to have issues with hardwired paths to the shared libraries in the CREATE FUNCTION commands. And in 8.1, whether the functions are in "public" or "pg_catalog" is going to vary across installations depending on whether the language was restored from a dump or not. I wonder if we could change the dump representation to abstract out the knowledge encapsulated in "createlang". I don't suppose this would work: \! createlang plpgsql <dbname> but it'd be nice if the dump didn't know any more about the language than its name, and didn't mention the implementation functions at all. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings