| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bugfix: --echo-hidden is not supported by \sf statements |
| Date: | 2013-02-26 19:19:06 |
| Message-ID: | 20130226191906.GX16142@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Well, actually I think Pavel's got a point. What about overloaded
> functions? In \df we don't try to solve that problem, we just print
> them all:
To be honest, I was reading through that code the other night and could
have sworn that I saw us doing some kind of magic on the arguments under
\df, but of course I don't see it now.
> Now, maybe we *should* teach \df about handling parameter types and
> then \ef can piggyback on it, but that code isn't there now.
That's definitely the right approach, imv. It should also work if only
a function name is provided and it's not overloaded, of course.
Thanks,
Stephen
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