Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A04D2E002D for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88858-02 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:08 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51802E0083 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3HGCogr020971; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:12:50 -0400 (EDT) To: Simon Riggs cc: "Gavin M. Roy" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: SQL Function Slowness, 8.3.0 In-reply-to: <1208448751.4259.317.camel@ebony.site> References: <8328.1208358587@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1208448751.4259.317.camel@ebony.site> Comments: In-reply-to Simon Riggs message dated "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:31 +0100" Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20970.1208448770@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/239 X-Sequence-Number: 29732 Simon Riggs writes: > I think it would help if there was some way to prepare functions to > allow them to be posted and understood more easily. These would help: > * a name obfuscator, so people can post functions without revealing > inner workings of their company and potentially lose intellectual > property rights over code posted in that way > * a pretty printer, so we can better understand them when we see 'em Aren't these suggestions mutually contradictory? regards, tom lane