On 10/6/14, 11:24 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Offlist.
>> FWIW, I've run into situations more than once in userspace where I need a
>> way to properly separate schema and object name. Generally I can make do
>> using reg* casts and then hitting catalog tables, but it'd be nice if there
>> was an easier way.
>
> Sure, although I think that's a bit of a separate problem. It's hard
> to iterate through a string a character at a time from the SQL level
> so that you can handle stuff like the quote_literal() rules. If we
> want people to be able to do that easily we need to provide tools to
> handle it. But C is actually quite well-suited to such tasks.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to attempt this in SQL; I was saying that a built-in function to do this would be broadly useful,
notjust for replicating DROPs.
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