>> > The basic goal of the patch was to make 'S' consistent for all \d >> > backslash commands, and we had a lot of discussion about it, and many >> > people asked for it (I can't find my user functions). >> >> I think this falls in the category of "be careful what you wish for, >> you might get it". It is now blindingly obvious that the folks asking >> for that had not actually lived with the behavior for any period of >> time. >> >> Personally I think we should just revert the patch and go back to the >> behavior we've had for umpteen years. However, if you cannot bear to >> leave well enough alone, how about *reversing* the sense --- that is, >> default behavior is to show everything and there is an extra character >> to omit system objects? > > I got several emails thanking me for applying the patch, so there is > clearly user-demand for 'S'. I think _we_ as developers look at the > system stuff a lot but in user-land, they would rather not see it by > default.
+1. It is seriously annoying that there is no easy way to see the functions that you've defined without seeing all the, ahem, crap in the system catalogs. Now maybe there should be a way to toggle the behavior, but please let's not think that everyone cares to see RI_FKey_noaction_del every time they hit \df. Noooo! ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
