Re: Showing parallel status in \df+

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > Agreed. I don't have any issue with "Language", really, but I agree
> > that "Source code" makes the output pretty ridiculous. I also liked the
> > idea of changing the name to "internal name" or something along those
> > lines, rather than having it be "source code", if we keep the column for
> > C/internal functions. Keeping is as "source code" wouldn't be accurate.
>
> It's sounding to me like we have consensus on this proposal to further
> change \df+ to replace the "Source code" column with "Internal name",
> which is prosrc for C and internal-language functions but NULL otherwise.
>
> If I've not heard objections by tomorrow I'll go make that change.
>
> Are we satisfied with telling people to use \sf to see the source code
> for a PL function? Or should there be another variant of \df that
> still provides source code?

I don't see the point in having a \df variant be the same as what \sf
is. I could possibly see extending \sf in some way, if there are things
that it doesn't currently do that \df does (and those things are
useful).

Thanks!

Stephen