Re: Function Vanished

Hi would it work to do a pg_dump -d or a pgdumpall, then look through
the dumped sql file?

I do that to retrieve PL/pgSQL functions from the database when I've
accidentally wiped or modified the source (not often, but it happens).

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> >       I'm using 7.1 Beta 3, which has been pretty stable up until now.  This
> > morning, I went to export a function I spent 5 hours debugging on on
> > Friday to text so that I could have a copy of the final version.  To my
> > horror, the function was GONE from the system catalog (pg_proc).
> 
> Ick.  Were you maybe working on it inside a transaction that you forgot
> to commit?
> 
> > I have
> > not run VACUUM on the database anytime recently ... is there any
> > possibility that my function is still present as a "deleted" row?
> 
> Should still be there in the table, if you haven't vacuumed.  Getting
> it out again is another story though.  If it was a small enough function,
> good ol' "strings" would do to extract the function body, which is
> probably all that you really need.  But if it's more than a couple K
> then the text will be compressed and difficult to spot or extract.
> 
>                         regards, tom lane
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