On Jul 4, 2006, at 3:35 AM, Dave Page wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Conway Sent: 04 July 2006 05:53 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: [HACKERS] system info functions(1) The docs claim that pg_get_viewdef() returns the "CREATE VIEW command for view", but that is clearly not the case: postgres=# create view v1 as select 1; CREATE VIEW postgres=# select pg_get_viewdef('v1'::regclass::oid); pg_get_viewdef ---------------- SELECT 1; (1 row) Should we change the documentation, or the implementation of pg_get_viewdef()?Documentation, unless we want to break apps that use the function.
Though, it would be nice to get everything into a consistent state. Since some get_*def commands have to return the create statements, we should probably move everything in that direction (or have two sets of functions, but that seems rather overblown...).
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