Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christophe
Subject Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function
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Msg-id DDF26AD2-38A9-4628-9059-55A558C003D6@thebuild.com
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In response to Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function  ("Matthew Dennis" <mdennis@merfer.net>)
Responses Re: indexes on functions and create or replace function  ("Matthew Dennis" <mdennis@merfer.net>)
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Matthew Dennis wrote:
> The plpgsql execute statement, as I understand it, means "take this
> string and execute like a client sent it to you".

Of course, the string could come from anywhere. There's no inherent
reason that I can think of (except good taste) that you could not
write a function that retrieved a string out of a field in a table,
executed it, and returned that as a value for use in an index.  The
client didn't send the string along, but it still creates dependencies.

Anyway, as was correctly pointed out, tracking dependencies in PL/
pgSQL is bad enough, but PL/Java, PL/Perl...

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