Re: GeSHi module for Postgresql?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: GeSHi module for Postgresql?
Date: 2010-05-04 16:02:56
Message-ID: 20100504160255.GA3565@alvh.no-ip.org
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Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> On Tuesday 4. May 2010 16.31.20 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> writes:
> > > Now I only need a list of the built-in functions.
> >
> > There's an awful lot of them, many of which aren't really intended to be
> > called by users anyway. Can't you just do "if it looks syntactically
> > like a function call, assume it is one"?
>
> Another point: I'm uncertain how to define a «user» in this context. Someone
> who wants to highlight plpgsql code snippets is most likely to be some kind of
> developer.

He means stuff that's intended to be called externally, i.e. not
system internal functions. A developer writing plpgsql is certainly a
"user".

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