Re: \df displaying volatility

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: \df displaying volatility
Date: 2008-05-25 17:39:50
Message-ID: 13615.1211737190@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hmm, right. Maybe the problem I have is that we made \df+ so wide so as
>> to be almost useless by now ...
>>
>> I think this is mostly caused by the "args" column getting too wide.
>> Can we remove the OUT params from it?

> Not a great idea.

Yeah, you'd certainly have to provide them somewhere, and so this would
just amount to splitting one column into two.

>> BTW what happened to the idea of displaying only user functions by
>> default?

IIRC it was more-or-less agreed to that the 'S' modifier ought to work
uniformly for all object types the way it does now for tables, but there
is no patch in the queue.

regards, tom lane

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