On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Would anyone object to \df displaying a function's volatility?  Maybe
> > > limit it to \df+?
> > 
> > Huh?  \df+ has displayed volatility for a long time, and I don't recall
> > any great demand to move it into \df.
> 
> Hmm, right.  Maybe the problem I have is that we made \df+ so wide so as
> to be almost useless by now ...
> 
> I think this is mostly caused by the "args" column getting too wide.
> Can we remove the OUT params from it?

Not a great idea.  Maybe having the output of \df+ be \x'd would help
more.

> BTW what happened to the idea of displaying only user functions by
> default?

Some of the people who'd approve such a patch have trouble imagining
why the other 99.99%+ of the use base find having the system functions
appear by default to be useless clutter :(

Cheers,
David.
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