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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-08-13 19:02:34 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-08-13 19:02:34 +0000
commit2af9a44fa97080b3c5cf0b8e789642efff3d14a6 (patch)
treeaad84c4abf80fae3c098db65b768971d377032b7 /src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c
parentf547909db77fd0f5f6eed78ace4eb926aaebeafe (diff)
Make pg_stat_file() use OUT parameters so that the user doesn't have to
remember the output parameter set for himself. It's a bit of a kluge but fixing array_in to work in bootstrap mode looks worse. I removed the separate pg_file_length() function, as it no longer has any real notational advantage --- you can write (pg_stat_file(...)).length.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c
index 2936050d105..d67ed4c791f 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
* Author: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c,v 1.3 2005/08/12 21:07:52 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c,v 1.4 2005/08/13 19:02:34 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ pg_stat_file(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
(errcode_for_file_access(),
errmsg("could not stat file \"%s\": %m", filename)));
+ /*
+ * This record type had better match the output parameters declared
+ * for me in pg_proc.h (actually, in system_views.sql at the moment).
+ */
tupdesc = CreateTemplateTupleDesc(5, false);
TupleDescInitEntry(tupdesc, (AttrNumber) 1,
"length", INT8OID, -1, 0);