On 2024-01-26 Fr 15:17, Tom Lane wrote: > Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes: >> I don't know, maybe I have a problem with the described use case. I cannot >> imagine holding the body and head of PL routines in different places and I >> don't understand the necessity to join it. > It seems a little weird to me too, and I would vote against accepting > \create_function as described because I think too few people would > want to use it. However, the idea of an easy way to pull in a file > and convert it to a SQL literal seems like it has many applications. > >
Yes, this proposal is far too narrow and would not cater for many use cases I have had in the past.
I like your ideas upthread about \file_read and :{filename}