Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(), - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),
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Msg-id 200606102317.k5ANHFe00550@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> >> Maybe I am misunderstanding the TODO (which is entirely possible due to 
> >> the complete lack of documentation on the feature) but I *thought* all I 
> >> was going to do was create 6 functions that could be called to get 
> >> various useful information?
> >>
> >> For example, pg_get_tabledef() would be a very handy function to use for 
> >> just about any abstracted API. As it stands now most (like Pear) create 
> >> their own custom queries/functions to handle it but they are more often 
> >> then not very innefficient.
> > 
> > I thought the TODO item was exactly what you described:
> > 
> >     * %Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),
> >       pg_get_tabledef(), pg_get_domaindef(), pg_get_functiondef()
> > 
> > We have per-server-version checks in pg_dump, so I figured the idea was
> > to use more of those functions if the exist, like we do now.  It is true
> > that you can't modify them for old versions as easily as you can if they
> > are hardcoded in pg_dump, but we our existing functions seems to work
> > fine.
> > 
> 
> O.k. so now what I am getting from this thread is, the functions exist 
> now in pg_dump but we want to pull them out of pg_dump and push them 
> into the backend?

That's what I thought we wanted.

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