Tom Lane wrote:
>psql may indeed work with no changes, because it's too stupid to know
>when you're defining a function, and so it would not be surprised to get
>a Start Copy In back from a CREATE FUNCTION command. This would not be
>true of nearly any other client that one might use to define a function.
>pgAdmin and other GUI tools all have code that knows perfectly well when
>they're defining a function, and it would take nontrivial surgery to
>make them able to use a COPY-based function definition mode.
>
Frontends would not be forced to use something that triggered this -
after all we have to stay backwards compatible and support the existing
inline string, no?
cheers
andrew
