Re: Create temporary function

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Create temporary function
Date: 2008-04-23 21:26:31
Message-ID: 480FA987.2060705@pinpointresearch.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
>
>> I have recently run across situations that might benefit from the
>> ability to create a temporary function.
>>
>
> You can do that today, as long as you don't mind schema-qualifying
> uses of the function:
>
> regression=# create function pg_temp.tfunc(int) returns int as
> regression-# $$ select $1 + 1 $$ language sql;
>

Excellent. I've submitted this as a comment to the docs for the next
time someone googles "CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION".

Cheers,
Steve

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