From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: FAST PostgreSQL <fastpgs@fast.fujitsu.com.au>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-patches] pg_get_domaindef
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:30:37 -0500
Message-ID: <45DB768D.3030100@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702202210.l1KMAjE12158@momjian.us>
References: <200702202210.l1KMAjE12158@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I always felt is was better for us to have server functions that return
> schema-specific data rather than require every application to define its
> own functions. I realize they are duplicated in pg_dump, but even if we
> made an external library that pg_dump could share with applications,
> would it only be available to C applications? That seems quite
> limiting.
>
I don't think so.
I imagine that the maintainers of DBD::Pg and phppgadmin, for example,
would be very likely to expose them.
And I can certainly imagine using/exposing them in some psql slash commands.
cheers
andrew
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