Re: opaque function not accepted (without error message) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: opaque function not accepted (without error message)
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Msg-id 8472.1029338183@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: opaque function not accepted (without error message)  ("Jules Alberts" <jules.alberts@arbodienst-limburg.nl>)
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"Jules Alberts" <jules.alberts@arbodienst-limburg.nl> writes:
>> Note that the \df command does not show functions which return opaque.

> Thanks Peter, I didn't know that. Is there any reason why they are not
> shown?

The idea is to avoid cluttering the display with I/O functions for
datatypes, but I think it's overdoing it.  Sooner or later we're going
to subdivide "opaque" into a set of more crisply-defined
pseudo-datatypes, and maybe then we can make \df smarter about what
not to show.

            regards, tom lane

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