Re: [SQL] Function Vanished

2001-03-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi would it work to do a pg_dump -d or a pgdumpall, then look through the dumped sql file? I do that to retrieve PL/pgSQL functions from the database when I've accidentally wiped or modified the source (not often, but it happens). Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: > > "Jos

Re: [SQL] Function Vanished

2001-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Should still be there in the table, if you haven't vacuumed. Getting >> it out again is another story though. If it was a small enough >> function, >> good ol' "strings" would do to extract the function body, which is >> probably all that you really n

Re: [SQL] Function Vanished

2001-03-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Ick. Were you maybe working on it inside a transaction that you > forgot > to commit? Nope. Friday was debugging work; the function had already been saved as a buggy version. I can even find the last buggy call to the function, on Friday, in the logs. I do have a copy of the buggy ver

Re: [SQL] Function Vanished

2001-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using 7.1 Beta 3, which has been pretty stable up until now. This > morning, I went to export a function I spent 5 hours debugging on on > Friday to text so that I could have a copy of the final version. To my > horror, the function was GONE

[SQL] Function Vanished

2001-03-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Jan, I've already contacted PGSQL Inc. support about this, but I thought that you might have some immediate insight. I'm using 7.1 Beta 3, which has been pretty stable up until now. This morning, I went to export a function I spent 5 hours debugging on on Friday to text so