* David Johnston (polobo@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Evan Martin wrote > > So I don't agree with the suggestion of matching function names using a > > regex, since that's not supported for other types of objects. To explain > > the use case a little better: Uh, we could add such support, which might be very handy. > > I maintain a set of scripts that can create a database from scratch. > > Sometimes I also need to update an existing database to the latest > > version. For tables this obviously requires separate scripts to preserve > > data, but views, rules and triggers can be updated just by using CREATE > > OR REPLACE in the DB creation scripts. Functions can /almost/ be updated > > this way, but not quite. > > Function arguments may change over time. > > No, they cannot. If the arguments change you are dealing with an entirely > new object. Yeah, for better or worse, we allow function overloading and we're not going to be dropping that. Thanks, Stephen
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