I agree, good suggestion, I just didn't know how to implement it without a new field. I'll make a new attempt to get it right.
On Thursday, July 5, 2012, Tom Lane wrote:
Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com> writes:
> New version, made a typo in last one.
I'm not particularly happy with the idea of adding a sortkey field to
DumpableObject as such, when most object types don't need it. That just
bloats the code and pg_dump's memory consumption. It would be better to
modify the already-existing object-type-specific special cases in
DOTypeNameCompare to take additional information into account as needed.
BTW, I see no reason to be adding extra calls of
pg_get_function_identity_arguments. What is wrong with the funcsig or
aggsig strings that the code already computes?
regards, tom lane