Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Here's another idea --- have three columns, "type", "schema" (as in the > current patch and as shown above), and a third one for object identity. > > For tables and other objects that have simple names, the identity would > be their names. For columns, it'd be <tablename>.<columnname>. For > functions, it'd be the complete signature. And so on.
Sounds very good as an extra column yes. Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > Broadly, I suggest making the output format match as exactly as > possible what commands like COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL accept as > input. We've already confronted all of these notational issues there. > Columns are identified as COLUMN table.name; functions as FUNCTION > function_name(argtypes); etc. Of course it's fine to split the object > type off into a separate column, but it should have the same name here > that it does there. I would like the format to be easily copy/paste'able to things such as regclass/regtype/regprocedure casts, and apparently the COMMENT input format seems to be the same as that one, so +1 from me. -- Dimitri Fontaine 06 63 07 10 78 http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
