postgresql extracting function source - postgresql

Need to extract the source of a PostgreSQL function using SQL.
I am seeing this odd behavior with one of the function, all other functions (around 200+ ) work absolutely fine.
When I run the following statement, it works:
select prosrc from pg_proc where proname= 'accounts_count';
However when I run the following, it returns an empty string:
select routine_definition
from information_schema.routines
where specific_name = 'accounts_count_66243'
PostgreSQL version 8.3. I have tried using both pgAdmin III and psql.
Not a show stopper, but would be useful to know why this might be.
Any ideas anyone?

if you look on definition of information_schema.routines, then you can find following filter:
FROM pg_namespace n, pg_proc p, pg_language l, pg_type t, pg_namespace nt
WHERE n.oid = p.pronamespace AND p.prolang = l.oid AND p.prorettype = t.oid
AND t.typnamespace = nt.oid AND (pg_has_role(p.proowner, 'USAGE'::text)
OR has_function_privilege(p.oid, 'EXECUTE'::text));
so my theory:
there are some issue in rights and ownership of related function (probably) - try to use different account for validation of this theory (postgres is best)

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join pg_user u on u.usesysid = p.proowner
where n.nspname = 'public'
and p.prokind <> 'a'
and u.usename = current_user;
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select t.*, f.* from
(
SELECT table_name,table_schema,
table_schema||'.'||table_name full_name,
table_type
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema not in ('information_schema') and table_schema not like 'pg%'
) t
JOIN
(
SELECT n.nspname AS schema_name,
p.proname AS function_name,
pg_get_function_arguments(p.oid) AS args,
pg_get_functiondef(p.oid) AS func_def
FROM pg_proc p
JOIN pg_namespace n ON n.oid = p.pronamespace
WHERE n.nspname not in ('pg_catalog','information_schema') and n.nspname not like 'pg%'
) f
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Something like this:
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from pg_type t
join pg_namespace ns on ns.oid = t.typnamespace
where t.typtype in ('b')
and t.typelem = 0;
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pg_type is documented in the manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/catalog-pg-type.html

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FROM information_schema.table_constraints AS tc
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ON tc.constraint_name = kcu.constraint_name
JOIN information_schema.constraint_column_usage AS ccu
ON ccu.constraint_name = tc.constraint_name
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Correlated subqueries with unnest, fed to ARRAY constructors avoid the problem in my query.
This query yields the same information, just without duplicate rows and 100x faster. Also, I would venture to guarantee, without deadlocks.
Only works for PostgreSQL, not portable to other RDBMSes.
SELECT c.conrelid::regclass AS table_name
, c.conname AS fk_name
, ARRAY(SELECT a.attname
FROM unnest(c.conkey) x
JOIN pg_attribute a
ON a.attrelid = c.conrelid AND a.attnum = x) AS fk_columns
, c.confrelid::regclass AS ref_table
, ARRAY(SELECT a.attname
FROM unnest(c.confkey) x
JOIN pg_attribute a
ON a.attrelid = c.confrelid AND a.attnum = x) AS ref_columns
FROM pg_catalog.pg_constraint c
WHERE c.contype = 'f';
-- ORDER BY c.conrelid::regclass::text,2
The cast to ::regclass yields table names as seen with your current search_path. May or may not be what you want. For this query to include the absolute path (schema) for every table name you can set the search_path like this:
SET search_path = pg_catalog;
SELECT ...
To continue your session with your default search_path:
RESET search_path;
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