Re: Closing some 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
Date
Msg-id 20090411202319.GA26186@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:34:31PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:12:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > > > Tom, It fits into 80 columns if you don't have any functions with
> > > > 11 parameters.  ;-)
> > > 
> > > Well, yeah, but in typical cases I think it fits.  A look at the
> > > current regression database shows all but 6 of 117 functions
> > > fitting.  With another ten characters eaten by a new column, a lot
> > > more of them would wrap.
> > > 
> > > > Actually, I'm thinking the new column ought to be called "type".
> > > 
> > > Yes, that's what I had in mind too.
> > 
> > Excellent idea.  I just plain don't believe that there's anything
> > process-critical and automated that depends on \da, although we could
> > have it rewritten as an alias for convenience.
> 
> I assume the 'type' column will identify triggers, i/o functions
> (cstring), window functions, and maybe aggregates too;  this solves
> several problems at once.

Lemme whip up a patch :)

Cheers,
David.
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