Re: review: psql: edit function, show function commands patch

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-14T14:09:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> attached updated \sf implementation. It is little bit simplyfied with
> support a pager and output forwarding. Formating was updated per Tom's
> request.

Applied with corrections --- mostly, fixing it to not trash the query
buffer, which would certainly not be expected behavior for such a
command.

Also, as previously mentioned, I took out the line number argument,
which seemed to me to have little if any use-case while substantially
complicating the code.  (It's not so much that it cost a lot in the
patch as submitted, it's that it *would* cost a lot if you were
honoring it in the pager calculation...)

One other thing: I took a look at the pg_get_functiondef() code and
realized that in fact it does NOT guarantee that the function body
will start with "AS $function...".  In languages with a nonnull
probin field, that's not what the line will look like.  I think though
that looking for just "AS " at the start of the line is sufficient
for our purposes here.  I will go change the \ef and \sf code for
that.

			regards, tom lane