Re: Closing some 8.4 open items

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>, Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
Date: 2009-04-11 20:23:19
Message-ID: 20090411202319.GA26186@fetter.org
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:34:31PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:12:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > > > Tom, It fits into 80 columns if you don't have any functions with
> > > > 11 parameters. ;-)
> > >
> > > Well, yeah, but in typical cases I think it fits. A look at the
> > > current regression database shows all but 6 of 117 functions
> > > fitting. With another ten characters eaten by a new column, a lot
> > > more of them would wrap.
> > >
> > > > Actually, I'm thinking the new column ought to be called "type".
> > >
> > > Yes, that's what I had in mind too.
> >
> > Excellent idea. I just plain don't believe that there's anything
> > process-critical and automated that depends on \da, although we could
> > have it rewritten as an alias for convenience.
>
> I assume the 'type' column will identify triggers, i/o functions
> (cstring), window functions, and maybe aggregates too; this solves
> several problems at once.

Lemme whip up a patch :)

Cheers,
David.
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