Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The only alternative that comes to mind is >> to have initdb issue an additional SQL command to establish the default >> after the bootstrap phase; that is, something like >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION >> pg_start_backup(label text, fast boolean DEFAULT false) >> RETURNS text LANGUAGE internal STRICT AS 'start_backup'; >> >> in system_views.sql or some such place.
> I think it's worth having this, perhaps as a new SQL file to be called > by initdb. I'm sure we can come up with new system functions for which > it's going to be useful to have default values. Yeah, I thought someone would raise the "there will be more soon" argument ;-). The reason I suggested system_views.sql is we already have one function in there that was too unwieldy to code directly in pg_proc.h. At some point it might be worth breaking the file into two parts, but I won't bother with that right now. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers