>Also, we've *never* had storage of the original text for views.
>I'm a little mystified by people claiming they use original
>text for vetting functions when they clearly have no equivalent
>ability for views ... or are your applications completely
>view-free?
Well, I would say that's annoying too!
>If you want an audit comparison point, I'd suggest capturing
>the result of pg_get_functiondef or one of its sibling functions
>just after creating your function. "pg_dump -s" is another
>pretty credible mechanism for capturing schema details.
Do note, that pg_get_viewdef returns the SELECT statement of a view,
no column name specification, while pg_get_function_def returns a CREATE
statement.
So the implementation is different too.
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
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