Re: usability of pg_get_function_arguments

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: usability of pg_get_function_arguments
Date: 2009-05-26 16:48:55
Message-ID: 13893.1243356535@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
>> I experimented with your example and noticed that pg_get_expr requires a
>> hack --- it insists on having a relation OID argument, because all
>> previous use-cases for it involved expressions that might possibly refer
>> to a particular table. So you have to do something like
>>
>> regression=# select pg_get_expr(proargdefaults,'pg_proc'::regclass) from pg_proc where proname='f13';
>> pg_get_expr
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 10, 'hello'::character varying, '2009-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone, 'comma here ,'::character varying
>> (1 row)
>>
>>
> Unfortunately, there is no way to know to which argument(s) the values
> above belongs to.

The last ones --- you can only omit arguments from the right, so it
makes no sense to allow a nonconsecutive set of defaults.

regards, tom lane

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