Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Michael Paesold wrote:
>
>> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>>
>>>> For the second, please supply a patch that moves _all_ of dbsize into
>>>> the main server. I think we have agreement on that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think so. As I mentioned, those views are broken. Do you want
>>> them to be in core anyway?
>>
>>
>> Why is e.g. this one broken:
>> int8 database_size(name) - Return the size of the database in
>> bytes (by name)
>>
>> It should do the same as the one with the oid except that it will resolve
>> the name first, no? If not it should be fixed, not dropped. I understand
>> you'd like to have those functions for the GUI frontends, but what about
>> psql users? For many people it will be hard work to type the subquery to
>> get the database oid.
>>
>> I vote for all (possibly corrected) functions to be moved into core.
>
> You're correct about the functions, but I was talking about the views.
> "WHERE name = $1" won't respect the schema, contrary to the current doc.
Oh, I am sorry for not reading carefully enough. Didn't know there were
views at all. So if they are broken and cannot be fixed, well...
Best Regards,
Michael Paesold
