Re: psql \df choose functions by their arguments

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Christensen <david(at)pgguru(dot)net>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql \df choose functions by their arguments
Date: 2020-11-03 14:31:32
Message-ID: CAKAnmmK4qg=p+YgPpYrftYq_UNT8nBfcDVhqvWHKOv72bS+Duw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 12:05 PM David Christensen <david(at)pgguru(dot)net> wrote:

>
> I can’t speak for the specific patch, but tab completion of proc args for
> \df, \ef and friends has long been a desired feature of mine, particularly
> when you are dealing with functions with huge numbers of arguments and the
> same name which I have (sadly) come across many times in the wild.
>

If someone can get this working against this current patch, that would be
great, but I suspect it will require some macro-jiggering in tab-complete.c
and possibly more, so yeah, could be something to add to the todo list.

Cheers,
Greg

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