Robert Treat writes: > One idea I've always thought would be nice would be to make full fledged > C functions out of the \ commands and ship them with the database.
The psql meta-commands are not a nicely designed set of queries that one would encapsulate into a public library interface. They are created for interactive use, representing precomposed views of the database that are thought to be useful. If the ideas of usefulness change, then the commands might change. If you want to create a set of views or functions for noninteractive use by client applications, then you need to step back and create maximally decomposed views of the database that can be combined in all possible ways. The SQL information schema is such a set, but the information is perhaps too limited for some applications. (But I urge you too look first.) But any other set would have to be designed on similar principles. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
