| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Error-safe user functions |
| Date: | 2022-12-07 16:06:16 |
| Message-ID: | 4031572.1670429176@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Why not do away with two separate functions and define a composite type
> (boolean, text) for is_valid to return?
I don't see any advantage to that. It would be harder to use in both
use-cases.
>> BTW, does anyone else agree that 9.26 is desperately in need of some
>> <sect2> subdivisions? It seems to have gotten a lot longer since
>> I looked at it last.
> I'd be inclined to do something like what we are attempting for Chapter 28
> Monitoring Database Activity; introduce pagination through refentry and
> build our own table of contents into it.
I'd prefer to follow the model that already exists in 9.27,
ie break it up with <sect2>'s, which provide a handy
sub-table-of-contents.
regards, tom lane
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