Re: Any reason not to show "null input" (strict) column in \df+ output?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any reason not to show "null input" (strict) column in \df+ output?
Date: 2018-02-22 16:15:32
Message-ID: 12725.1519316132@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The STRICT-ness of a function seems like it should be viewable when using
> \df+; is its absence just an oversight?

I've been annoyed by that in the past. I have some vague memory of
proposing adding it and being shot down, on don't-remember-what grounds.
But I couldn't find any such discussion in a quick trawl of the archives,
so maybe I'm misremembering. The only reasonable counter-argument I can
think of now is that it'd make the display Even Wider ... but \df+ long
since blew past any reasonable screen width.

regards, tom lane

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