Re: PL/pgSQL Todo, better information in errcontext from plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> With func oid I can get all other info later, without it, I need   
>>> estimate which functions are in stack track.
>>
>> Why do you need the OID to know exactly what function something  
>> is?  What's wrong with schema.function(args)?
>> --
>
> oid is simply unique. I can take source code, args and all without  
> parsing. It's only one difference. I unlike parsing.

decibel=# select 'pg_catalog.abstimelt 
(abstime,abstime)'::regprocedure::oid;
oid
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253

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