* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The 'special' bit here is that pg_getfullpath() would work relative to > > the caller's search_path even inside of a function which has its 'PATH' > > set. > > Eeek. *Which* caller's search_path? The string you're handed might've > come from multiple levels up.
I would say the outer-most. If people inbetween want to mess with things, let them qualify it before handing it down. Clearly, an already-qualified object would be left alone. > There might be some point in allowing the caller itself to fully qualify > the name (before passing it down) with more ease than now. We have > regclass and so forth, but those make a point of stripping schema > qualification when it's "unnecessary" according to the current search > path. And yet on the third hand --- how often would it be the case that > this was an issue and yet the caller doesn't know which schema it has in > mind? At least at the moment in our application code the search_path is set quite far apart from the function call. Additionally, we depend on the fact that we can set a multi-schema search_path with a specific order and have the correct thing happen. A function which qualified an object based on the current search_path would probably work for us in this application but seems quite counter-intuitive to a user who is calling functions by hand (for whatever reason). ie: select error_scan(pg_getfullname('default_error_list')); vs. select error_scan('default_error_list'); As a user, it's pretty ingrained that unqualified table names follow the current search_path and having to explicitly qualify tables when passing them to functions (with a helper function or not) just comes across as broken. Thanks, Stephen
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