Re: Closing some 8.4 open items

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > Revised patch attached. \dw does not need an 'S' decorator,
>
> Yes it does. We have only painfully gotten to the point of having
> consistent behavior across all the \d commands. We are not going to
> break that consistency before it's even shipped.

I'd be happy to revert that part.

> Perhaps more to the point: the previous round of discussion about
> this already rejected the idea of treating window functions as a
> category fundamentally separate from plain functions --- that is, we
> are not following the "aggregate" model of having separate commands
> for aggregate functions.

I hadn't seen any such a consensus. If anything, the consensus seemed
to be going toward the \da and not away from it, hence the revised
patch.

Cheers,
David.
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