2010/8/1 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>>> so my plan
>>
>>> a) fix problem with ambiguous $function* like you proposed
>>> b) fix problem with "first row excepting" - I can activate a detection
>>> only for plpgsql language - I can identify LANGUAGE before.
>>
>> Ick. We should absolutely NOT have a client-side special case for plpgsql.
>>
>> Personally I'd be fine with dropping the special case from the plpgsql
>> parser --- I don't believe that that behavior was ever discussed, much
>> less documented, and I doubt that many people rely on it or even know
>> it exists.
>
> +1.
>
>> The need to count lines manually in function definitions is
>> far less than it was back when that kluge was put in.
>
> Why?
>
>> If anyone can make a convincing case that it's a good idea to ignore
>> leading newlines, we should reimplement the behavior in such a way that
>> it applies across the board to all PLs (ie, make CREATE FUNCTION strip
>> a leading newline before storing the text). However, then you'd have
>> issues about whether or when to put back the newline, so I'm not really
>> in favor of that route.
>
> Ditto.
>
> As a procedural note, if we decide to go this route, this should be
> split into two patches - one that removes the line-numbering kludge,
> and a second for the psql changes.
ok - tomorrow I'll send a patch
Regards
Pavel
>
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