Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> What exactly is the point of the \sf command?
> I rather like \sf, actually; in fact, I think there's a decent > argument to be made that it's more useful than the line-numbering > stuff for \ef. I don't particularly like the name "\sf", but that's > more because I think backslash commands are a fundamentally unscalable > approach to providing administrative functionality than because I > think there's a better option in this particular case. It's rather > hard right now to get a function definition out of the database in > easily cut-and-pastable format. Um, but \sf *doesn't* give you anything that's usefully copy and pasteable. And if that were the goal, why doesn't it have an option to write to a file? But it's really the line numbers shoved in front that I'm on about here. I can't see *any* use for that behavior except to figure out what part of your function an error message with line number is referring to; and as I said upthread, there are better ways to be attacking that problem. If you've got a thousand-line function (yes, they're out there) do you really want to be scrolling through \sf output to find out what line 714 is? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers