"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/12/31 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>> Maybe we could have a separate function which returned the info in
>> various columns (OUT params). Maybe it would be useful to normalize the
>> info as reported the buildfarm, which right now is a bit ad-hoc.
> All should be GUC read only variables - It is cheep.
Not as cheap as a single added function. If we need to provide these
fields broken out --- and no one has demonstrated any need to do so ---
then I'd support Alvaro's suggestion.
regards, tom lane