Re: GeSHi module for Postgresql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: GeSHi module for Postgresql?
Date
Msg-id 20100504160255.GA3565@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: GeSHi module for Postgresql?  (Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>)
List pgsql-general
Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> On Tuesday 4. May 2010 16.31.20 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org> writes:
> > > Now I only need a list of the built-in functions.
> >
> > There's an awful lot of them, many of which aren't really intended to be
> > called by users anyway.  Can't you just do "if it looks syntactically
> > like a function call, assume it is one"?
>
> Another point: I'm uncertain how to define a «user» in this context. Someone
> who wants to highlight plpgsql code snippets is most likely to be some kind of
> developer.

He means stuff that's intended to be called externally, i.e. not
system internal functions.  A developer writing plpgsql is certainly a
"user".

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