Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> Well, maybe we do need to go with the \df \dfS \dfU approach.
>> But I'm still convinced that setting things up so that it's impossible
>> to search both classes of functions together is a seriously bad idea.

> Agreed -- there are times I *want* to search the system functions, and
> for less-trained users they might not know the difference between UDFs
> and builtin functions, especially if they've loaded a few contrib modules.

Yeah, the contrib-module point is a telling one.

> Personally, I don't care that much about what Hungarian Notation we use,
> as long as we try to make it consistent with \dt, \dv, \dn etc. My main
> objection to requiring \dfU to get only user functions is that it's not
> what we do with \dt.

Well, if we were going to do anything like that, I'd want to change the
behavior of \dt to match everything else. I don't see the argument why
\dt's existing behavior is sacrosanct if the others aren't ...

regards, tom lane