huaxingao commented on a change in pull request #28428:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28428#discussion_r418437023



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File path: docs/sql-ref-syntax-aux-show-functions.md
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@@ -60,11 +60,12 @@ SHOW [ function_kind ] FUNCTIONS ( [ LIKE ] function_name | 
regex_pattern )
   <dd>
     Specifies a regular expression pattern that is used to filter the results 
of the
     statement.
-    <ul>
-      <li>Only <code>*</code> and <code>|</code> are allowed as wildcard 
pattern.</li>
-      <li>Excluding <code>*</code> and <code>|</code>, the remaining pattern 
follows the regular expression semantics.</li>
-      <li>The leading and trailing blanks are trimmed in the input pattern 
before processing. The pattern match is case-insensitive.</li>
-    </ul>
+     <ul>
+       <li>Except for <code>*</code> and <code>|</code> character, the pattern 
works like a regular expression.</li>
+       <li><code>*</code> alone matches 0 or more characters and 
<code>|</code> is used to separate multiple different regular expressions,
+       any of which can match. </li>
+       <li>The leading and trailing blanks are trimmed in the input pattern 
before processing. The pattern match is case-insensitive.</li>
+     </ul>

Review comment:
       Change to  the same description of ```regex_pattern``` as the one used 
in SHOW TABLE EXTENDED, SHOW TABLES, SHOW VIEWS.




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