Viewing function definitions in Vertica

I don’t know if you have tried this. But I did try to read function definition from the system tables in Vertica. I used the table called USER_FUNCTIONS which is a table in the V_CATALOG system schema. More details can be found here: https://my.vertica.com/docs/6.1.x/HTML/index.htm#15021.htm But unfortunately when I try and do something like this: vertdeva01:20130604-113434 > select function\_definition from v\_catalog.user\_functions where schema\_name='calc' and function\_name='getCYForDate'; \---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RETURN to\_date(concat(((((date\_part('year', (processDate)::timestamp))::int - CASE WHEN ((date\_part('month', (processDate)::time (1 row) If you notice the function definition is only partly visible. The rest of it gets truncated. I don’t know how to set it right. If you know how, feel free to comment on this post. ...

June 5, 2013 · 2 min · 267 words