Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server: Clean up generation of default

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server: Clean up generation of default
Date: 2004-06-12 17:44:08
Message-ID: 26591.1087062248@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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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