Douglas Little wrote: > In deploying new versions of function source, I want to export the current definition to a file. > > After looking around it seems that I needed to create my own function. > > I got the function to work, but am having a slight problem with the execution of the exported file. > > It seems that if I include line breaks they are not being interpreted by psql on input. > > Other than leaving the line breaks out, does anybody have any suggestions for getting psql to ignore > the line feeds. > > I tried to replace the \n with blanks on output, but failed. > > Some specifics might help. > Running on redhat, pg 8.2.15/greenplum 4.1.2.6 > > Ddl export > > d1gp1=> \copy (SELECT dba_work.pg_get_functiondef('da_test.aggairbookingitinasbookedprc'::regp roc)) > to test1.sql > > exported file > > [dlittle@eginformatica02p ~]$ cat test1.sql > > \nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION da_test.aggairbookingitinasbookedprc(numeric)\nRETURNS void > AS\n$BODY$\n\n/* Declare Variables*/\n-- modified 2/28/2010\nDECLARE\n vTimestamp TIMESTAMP(6); > -- Variable to Store Current Timestamp during diffent process stage.\n vAuditKey VARCHAR(18); > -- Variable to Capture Lastest Auditkey for Specific Dimension Processing.\n vSpStep INTEGER; Using COPY for that is not the best choice, as you see. If you do it from psql, why not use \o? test=> \pset tuples_only on test=> \pset format unaligned test=> \o func.sql test=> SELECT pg_get_functiondef('first'::regproc); test=> \q $ cat func.sql CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION laurenz.first(text, integer) RETURNS integer LANGUAGE sql STABLE STRICT AS $function$SELECT id FROM test WHERE val=$1 LIMIT $2$function$ Does that help? Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general