On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:25:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Pavel Stehule" <[email protected]> writes: > > 2008/12/31 Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>: > >> Maybe we could have a separate function which returned the info > >> in various columns (OUT params). Maybe it would be useful to > >> normalize the info as reported the buildfarm, which right now is > >> a bit ad-hoc. > > > All should be GUC read only variables - It is cheep. > > Not as cheap as a single added function. If we need to provide > these fields broken out --- and no one has demonstrated any need to > do so --- then I'd support Alvaro's suggestion.
+1 for broken-out fields in columns per Alvaro. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
