Re: Passing arguments to views

Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com> writes:
> I'm fine with those limitations. I can confirm that all of my
> functions are not referencing tables that don't exist by doing a
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION to reload each function. A pg_dump/
> pg_restore would accomplish this, but it would be nice to have a
> "RELOAD FUNCTION" (or "REPARSE"? or "VERIFY"?) command that would
> just re-parse the function's source code (like CREATE FUNCTION does)
> and spit out errors if the function is referencing relations that
> don't exist.

This is putting way too much trust in the behavior of a
PL-language-specific verifier function. Anyway, you can do what you
want today:
select fmgr_sql_validator(oid) from pg_proc where prolang = 14;
(Generalizing this to work for any language is left as an exercise
for the reader...)

regards, tom lane