Re: viewing user defined functions

dearsoandso(at)gmail(dot)com <dearsoandso(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a look at a user defined function that's being run on a
> server. pg_top -E tells me it's encountering a syntax error and I'd like to
> get a look at the function as it is running on the server. I have access to
> the SQL source but there are several version and I don't know which one is
> running now.
>
> How do I go about viewing a user defined function on postgres 8.3?

All informations about such functions are stored in the system-table
pg_proc. To view the source, for instance, do a

select prosrc from pg_proc where proname='insert the function-name';

There are more columns contains information, for instance the arguments,
return-type an so on, read more:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/catalog-pg-proc.html

Andreas
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