How many of the people who find the new behaviour are mainly postgres
hackers and not users?
I remember finding the behaviour *very* frustrating when I was a user
and was mainly concerned with maintaining my own functions. I hardly
ever used \df for system functions.
Now the situation is reversed - I mainly work with test databases with
simple schemas. But it's common for users to have hundreds of
functions - and much more likely that they would want to look them up
by name.
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Greg
On 15 Jan 2009, at 16:39, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
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?
regards, tom lane
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