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# 43.27. `pg_proc`

The catalog `pg_proc` stores information about functions (or procedures). See CREATE FUNCTION and Section 33.3 for more information.

The table contains data for aggregate functions as well as plain functions. If `proisagg` is true, there should be a matching row in `pg_aggregate`.

Table 43-27. `pg_proc` Columns

Name | Type | References | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
`proname` | `name` |  | Name of the function
`pronamespace` | `oid` | ``pg_namespace`.oid` | The OID of the namespace that contains this function
`proowner` | `oid` | ``pg_authid`.oid` | Owner of the function
`prolang` | `oid` | ``pg_language`.oid` | Implementation language or call interface of this function
`proisagg` | `bool` |  | Function is an aggregate function
`prosecdef` | `bool` |  | Function is a security definer (i.e., a "setuid" function)
`proisstrict` | `bool` |  | Function returns null if any call argument is null. In that case the function won't actually be called at all. Functions that are not "strict" must be prepared to handle null inputs
`proretset` | `bool` |  | Function returns a set (i.e., multiple values of the specified data type)

`provolatile`

`char`

`provolatile` tells whether the function's result depends only on its input arguments, or is affected by outside factors. It is `i` for "immutable" functions, which always deliver the same result for the same inputs. It is `s` for "stable" functions, whose results (for fixed inputs) do not change within a scan. It is `v` for "volatile" functions, whose results may change at any time. (Use `v` also for functions with side-effects, so that calls to them cannot get optimized away.)

`pronargs` | `int2` |  | Number of arguments
`prorettype` | `oid` | ``pg_type`.oid` | Data type of the return value
`proargtypes` | `oidvector` | ``pg_type`.oid` | An array with the data types of the function arguments. This includes only input arguments (including `INOUT` arguments), and thus represents the call signature of the function
`proallargtypes` | `oid[]` | ``pg_type`.oid` | An array with the data types of the function arguments. This includes all arguments (including `OUT` and `INOUT` arguments); however, if all the arguments are IN arguments, this field will be null. Note that subscripting is 1-based, whereas for historical reasons `proargtypes` is subscripted from 0
`proargmodes` | `char[]` |  | An array with the modes of the function arguments, encoded as `i` for `IN` arguments, `o` for `OUT` arguments, `b` for `INOUT` arguments. If all the arguments are `IN` arguments, this field will be null. Note that subscripts correspond to positions of `proallargtypes` not `proargtypes`
`proargnames` | `text[]` |  | An array with the names of the function arguments. Arguments without a name are set to empty strings in the array. If none of the arguments have a name, this field will be null. Note that subscripts correspond to positions of `proallargtypes` not `proargtypes`
`prosrc` | `text` |  | This tells the function handler how to invoke the function. It might be the actual source code of the function for interpreted languages, a link symbol, a file name, or just about anything else, depending on the implementation language/call convention
`probin` | `bytea` |  | Additional information about how to invoke the function. Again, the interpretation is language-specific
`proacl` | `aclitem[]` |  | Access privileges; see GRANT and REVOKE for details

For compiled functions, both built-in and dynamically loaded, `prosrc` contains the function's C-language name (link symbol). For all other currently-known language types, `prosrc` contains the function's source text. `probin` is unused except for dynamically-loaded C functions, for which it gives the name of the shared library file containing the function.

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