Re: View user defined functions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: "Charley L(dot) Tiggs" <ctiggs(at)xpressdocs(dot)com>, Postgres Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: View user defined functions
Date: 2005-10-18 15:39:30
Message-ID: 1453.1129649970@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Charley L. Tiggs wrote:
>> How can I see the definition of a user defined function without
>> dumping the database or the schema to a file? I've been looking for
>> a way to do this for about three weeks now, off and on and it's
>> getting rather tedious to need to dump the schema every time I wish
>> to change some part of a function.

> In psql you can use "\df+ functionname"; you could also issue a
> query like

> SELECT prosrc FROM pg_proc WHERE proname = 'functionname';

Also, I think that several of the available GUI packages (pgAdmin
etc) provide more comfortable means of editing function definitions.

regards, tom lane

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