On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've been running a few functions within schema's. It's annoying that
> > everything needs to be qualified as it doesn't allow the functions to be
> > moved very easily.
> > Would it be appropriate for the function to have it's own schema as
> > pre-pended onto the user path while in the users function?
>
> Hmm. I can think of examples where you wouldn't want that (because
> the function *should* see the caller's namespace) about as easily
> as cases where you would.
>
> If a function wants to access "its own schema", why shouldn't it
> use qualified references?
I was thinking of the effort put into pg_dump to prevent over qualifying
references in order to allow the user to move stuff easily. It's not a
big deal, but does prevent this ability with functions.
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