On 11/24/2010 07:29 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
  As a first attempt at syntax, I might suggest something along the
lines of "object type: object name", where the types and names might
look to COMMENT ON for inspiration.


pg_dump already uses a list of object types (e.g. as seen in the output from pg_restore --list). Let's not invent something new if we don't need to. But we'll need more than that. We'll need enough for disambiguation, especially for functions which is your stated use case. So, something like this might work:

    FUNCTION:myschema.myfunc:integer,text,timestamp with time zone

We could allow the object type to compare case insensitively. For extra credit, allow type aliases, and don't require argument types if no disambiguation is needed.

cheers

andrew

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