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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> If anything but the proposed feature, it should be an SRF - passing in
> text parameters isn't very discoverable. And I can't imagine where an
> SRF would have too high overhead.

The two existing extensions doing that are SRFs, yes. One of them has
been made by our committer Joe Conway. Let's please have a look how to
best include existing code into core.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support


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