Re: Grep'ing for a string in all functions in a schema?

This is the most helpful thing I've seen in months. Bravo.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM, bricklen <bricklen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Wells Oliver <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>
>> Since Postgres does not consider a table as a dependency of a function if
>> that table is referenced in the function (probably a good reason), I often
>> find myself in a position of asking "is this table/sequence/index
>> referenced in any of these N number of functions?"
>>
>> Is there an easy way of essentially grep'ing all of the functions in a
>> given schema for a string?
>>
>
> A method I've used in the past is to create a view of function source
> which can then be searched.
> Eg.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW function_def as
> SELECT n.nspname AS schema_name,
> p.proname AS function_name,
> pg_get_function_arguments(p.oid) AS args,
> pg_get_functiondef(p.oid) AS func_def
> FROM (SELECT oid, * FROM pg_proc p WHERE NOT p.proisagg) p
> JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = p.pronamespace
> WHERE n.nspname !~~ 'pg_%'
> AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema';
>
> select * from function_def where func_def ilike '%foo%';
>

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