Re: Bug in pg_describe_object (was: Re: [HACKERS] obj_unique_identifier(oid))

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>

Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel@gluefinance.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>, Herrera Alvaro <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-01-10T21:37:20Z

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Add pg_describe_object function
- 6cc2deb86e91 9.1.0 cited

Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> Here is the bug-fix patch again with a description of the context so I
> can add it to the commit fest.

> Joel Jacobson discovered a bug in the function pg_describe_object where
> it does not produce unique identifiers for some entries in pg_amproc.

There was never any intention that that code produce a guaranteed-unique
identifier; it's only meant to be a humanly useful identifer, and this
patch seems to me to mostly add noise.

			regards, tom lane