Re: pgAdmin III: the debugger does not pre-populate default values for arguments

Le 07/02/2011 09:03, Nikhil S a écrit :
> [...]
> The debugger, when it is invoked on a function or a procedure, provides a
> dialogue box to fill up values for the arguments. In case the user has
> created them with some default values assigned to some of the parameters,
> then they would expect that the debugger pre-populates them with those
> default values. This is not happening currently.
>
> The attached patch provides this functionality.
>
> We check if the "argdefvals" column exists in the output for the func/proc.
> If it does, it gets tokenized and added to the corresponding wsArgInfo
> object. These values then get displayed appropriately.
>
> One side-effect of this feature is that earlier where non-default variables
> appeared as empty, they will now appear with values "". This will happen
> only if some arguments have defvals and some don't. We could have added code
> to do away with "" entries, but then I thought it is possible for people to
> provide "" as default values too. So we can live with this I think..
>

Seems a great idea to me.


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