On 2013-07-18 12:01:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > They don't show up in a quick grep of psqlodbc's source code, FWIW.
>
> Hmm. Maybe we should just remove them and see if anyone complains.
> We could always put them back (or make them available via contrib) if
> it's functionality someone actually needs. The last discussion of
> those functions was in 2007 and nobody seemed too sure back then
> either, so maybe the rumor that anyone is actually using this is no
> more than rumor.
I am pretty sure they are still used. A quick grep on a not too old
checkout prooves that... Note that the sql accessible functions are
named currtid and currtid2 (yes, really)...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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