Re: pgstat SRF?

On Apr 21, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> While looking over the statistics-for-functions patch
> (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00300.php), I
> came back to a thought I've had before - why do we keep one function
> per column for pgstat functions, instead of using a set returning
> function? Is there some actual reason for this, or is it just legacy
> from a time when it was (much) harder to write SRFs?
>
> If there's no actual reason, I think it would be a good idea to
> make at
> least new views added based on SRFs instead....

+1. I could probably use this for pgstats at some point.
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