Re: Scripting function definitions as SQL?

Yes, but I'm doing this from a Delphi program in Windows and that's
why I'm looking for a solution that's SQL-based.

It would be nice if one of the system catalog views handled it.

> hmmm .. "additional coding" seems a bit too much for a simple thing like
> this:
> pg_dump -s | perl -ne 'print if /^CREATE FUNCTION test_it/../^\s+LANGUAGE/'
>
> of course it would be cool to have switch to do it, but hey - it hardly
> even qualifies as one-liner. it's more "an expression" than code.

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski
<depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Postgres User wrote:
> > Unfortunately I didn't see a way to tell pg_dump to dump only objects
> > of a specific type, like functions or sequences. It requires
> > additional coding to parse the output and that's less than ideal...
>
> hmmm .. "additional coding" seems a bit too much for a simple thing like
> this:
> pg_dump -s | perl -ne 'print if /^CREATE FUNCTION test_it/../^\s+LANGUAGE/'
>
> of course it would be cool to have switch to do it, but hey - it hardly
> even qualifies as one-liner. it's more "an expression" than code.
>
>
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