From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 7.3 gotchas for applications and client libraries
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:16:11 -0400
Message-ID: <5032.1031058971@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15732.36384.130862.855693@kelvin.csl.co.uk>
References: <851.1031018040@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<15732.36384.130862.855693@kelvin.csl.co.uk>
Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION column_exists(NAME, NAME) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION table_exists(NAME) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '
> Obviously these need attention when our application targets 7.3 (and
> thanks for the heads-up), but all changes are localised.
They are? What will your policy be about schema names --- won't you
have to touch every caller to add a schema name parameter?
I'm not averse to trying to push logic over to the backend, but I think
the space of application requirements is wide enough that designing
general-purpose functions will be quite difficult.
regards, tom lane
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