On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:58:44AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> One --perhaps nice, perhaps not-- property of this is that if > >>> you defined a function named "rtrim" and then did "\df rtrim" it > >>> would show you _both_ the system and user function and make it > >>> easier to see the conflict. Whereas the other behaviour I > >>> proposed would hide the system function which might exacerbate > >>> the user's confusion. > > >> Another way we could approach this is ... > > > That doesn't satisfy the original source of the annoyance which is > > that \df spams your terminal with ten screens of system functions > > with your user functions hidden amongst them. > > Sure, but I think the core objection there is that there is no easy > way to see only the user-defined functions. Given your point quoted > first above, I'm unconvinced that should be the default behavior.
When we have a bad default--and I'd argue that for anyone not developing PostgreSQL itself, showing system functions is a bad default--we should change it to something sane. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
