Re: 7.3 gotchas for applications and client libraries

Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
>  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION column_exists(NAME, NAME) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '

>  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION table_exists(NAME) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '

> Obviously these need attention when our application targets 7.3 (and
> thanks for the heads-up), but all changes are localised.

They are?  What will your policy be about schema names --- won't you
have to touch every caller to add a schema name parameter?

I'm not averse to trying to push logic over to the backend, but I think
the space of application requirements is wide enough that designing
general-purpose functions will be quite difficult.
        regards, tom lane