On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Brendan Jurd" <dire...@gmail.com> writes: > > Most people wanting to learn about which system functions are > > available will be surely be going to the manual, not using \df? > > I think people use \df all the time to check the argument list, verify > whether they remember the function name correctly, etc. It's not for > "learning about" stuff you never heard of, it's for remembering details > (as indeed is the usage for user-defined functions too).
Perhaps the way to solve this problem is to change the way the output is rendered. E.g; \df output wraps at 1024x768 which greatly limits usability as a whole. I hadn't noticed this until today as my workstation video card exploded and I have a temporary one that can't do more than 1024x768 with linux. Dropping the return type from the default output would solve this problem I think (use + to get the return type). More importantly why not just have it so \df sorts like this: 1. session users functions first 2. public functions second 3. pg_catalog functions last Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
