Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement
Date: 2011-11-30 16:13:58
Message-ID: 12568.1322669638@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> On the whole, it might not be a bad idea to have two allowed signatures
>> for the validator function, rather than inventing an additional column
>> in pg_language. But the fundamental point IMHO is that there needs to
>> be a provision to pass language-dependent validation options to the
>> function, whether it's the existing validator or a separate checker
>> entry point.

> Something like:
> CHECK FUNCTION proname(proargs) WITH (...fdw-style elastic options...)

Great minds think alike ... that was pretty much exactly the syntax that
was in the back of my mind.

regards, tom lane

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