Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> OK, attached is a file with the original function, and an overloaded one 
> that just takes table and column.  It searches your current search_path 
> to find the first matching table.

The right way to do this at the C level would be to use the same
infrastructure as nextval() does to accept arguments like 'foo' and
'"Foo"."Bar"'.  There's no reason to restrict the two-argument form
to the current search_path.

Given that you do that, I'm not sure that a three-argument form is even
needed.  AFAIR no one has asked for a two-argument form of nextval...

			regards, tom lane

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