Re: [HACKERS] \df displaying volatility

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:39:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Yeah, you'd certainly have to provide them somewhere, and so this
> would just amount to splitting one column into two.

How about splitting them up with newlines instead of (or in addition
to) commas?

> >> BTW what happened to the idea of displaying only user functions
> >> by default?
>
> IIRC it was more-or-less agreed to that the 'S' modifier ought to
> work uniformly for all object types the way it does now for tables,
> but there is no patch in the queue.

OK, since I did the whining, I get to prepare a patch. I'll see how
far I can get today. :)

Cheers,
David.
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