Re: [pgsql-patches] pg_get_domaindef

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I always felt is was better for us to have server functions that return
> schema-specific data rather than require every application to define its
> own functions.  I realize they are duplicated in pg_dump, but even if we
> made an external library that pg_dump could share with applications,
> would it only be available to C applications?  That seems quite
> limiting.
>   

I don't think so.

I imagine that the maintainers of DBD::Pg and phppgadmin, for example, 
would be very likely to expose them.

And I can certainly imagine using/exposing them in some psql slash commands.

cheers

andrew