Kevin Grittner wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > what would be the actual use cases of any of these features? > > Let's collect some, so we can think of ways to make them work. > > The two things which leap to mind for me are: > > (1) All the \d commands in psql should be implemented in SPs so > that they are available from any client, through calling one SP > equivalent to one \d command. The \d commands would be changed to > call the SPs for releases recent enough to support this. Eventually > psql would be free of worrying about which release contained which > columns in which system tables, because it would just be passing the > parameters in and displaying whatever results came back. > > I have used products which implemented something like this, and > found it quite useful.
Uh, why does this require stored procedures? Seems our existing function capabilities are even better suited to this. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
