Re: pg_dump sort order for functions

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On mn, 2010-01-11 at 12:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> -- Name: binary_coercible(oid, oid); Type: FUNCTION; Schema: public; Owner: postgres

> Um, that tag is the "name", and if you change that, the name in CREATE
> FUNCTION also changes.

So?

> In the mean time, hacking it into the sort function itself as a special
> case works out fine, per attached patch. One might frown upon such an
> exception, but then again, function overloading is an exception to the
> one-name-per-object rule all over the place anyway. ;-)

No, that's a completely bogus solution, because it depends on type
OIDs. It won't be stable across dump/reload, which defeats the purpose
AFAICS.

regards, tom lane