Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date
Msg-id 200901151741.n0FHfI816268@momjian.us
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@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).

Which means my patch will work perfectly for them (because of the
pattern), and hopefully for you.  ;-)

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