I agree, good suggestion, I just didn't know how to implement it without a new field. I'll make a new attempt to get it right.
On Thursday, July 5, 2012, Tom Lane wrote: > Joel Jacobson <j...@trustly.com <javascript:;>> writes: > > New version, made a typo in last one. > > I'm not particularly happy with the idea of adding a sortkey field to > DumpableObject as such, when most object types don't need it. That just > bloats the code and pg_dump's memory consumption. It would be better to > modify the already-existing object-type-specific special cases in > DOTypeNameCompare to take additional information into account as needed. > > BTW, I see no reason to be adding extra calls of > pg_get_function_identity_arguments. What is wrong with the funcsig or > aggsig strings that the code already computes? > > regards, tom lane >