Re: pg_stat_user_functions' notion of user - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: pg_stat_user_functions' notion of user
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Msg-id 20100808154013.GA27785@fetter.org
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In response to Re: pg_stat_user_functions' notion of user  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: pg_stat_user_functions' notion of user
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 03:25:06PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2010-08-05 at 07:13 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:58:32PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > pg_stat_user_functions has an inconsistent notion of what "user"
> > > is.  Whereas the other pg_stat_user_* views filter out non-user
> > > objects by schema, pg_stat_user_functions checks for language
> > > "internal", which does not successfully exclude builtin
> > > functions of language SQL.  Is there a reason for this
> > > inconsistency?
> > 
> > If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that the functionality was
> > written over time by different people, not all of whom were using
> > the same criteria for coherence.
> 
> Would anyone object to changing it to make it more consistent with
> other others?  And since we're jollily making catalog changes in 9.0
> still, could this also be backpatched?

+1 for both.

Cheers,
David.
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