Re: Display oprcode and its volatility in \do+

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, PosTGrESql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Display oprcode and its volatility in \do+
Date: 2014-01-16 15:31:17
Message-ID: 52D7FB45.2060807@joh.to
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On 1/16/14 4:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> writes:
>> On 1/16/14 9:53 AM, Rushabh Lathia wrote:
>>> Even I personally felt the Function and Volatility is nice to have info
>>> into \do+.
>
> FWIW, I'm on board with the idea of printing the oprcode, but adding
> volatility here seems like probably a waste of valuable terminal width.
> I think that the vast majority of operators have immutable or at worst
> stable underlying functions, so this doesn't seem like the first bit
> of information I'd need about the underlying function.

Completely unscientifically, 50% of the time I've wanted to know the
oprcode has been because I wanted to know its volatility (exactly
because of the stable oprcodes we have). It seemed like a useful
addition, but I don't feel that strongly about it.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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