| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: psql with "Function Type" in \df |
| Date: | 2009-04-22 14:44:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20090422144415.GY10358@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > If I can get someone else to say they prefer brackets over parentheses in
> > \? I will make the change. Right now we have:
>
> > \df[antwS+] [PATTERN] list (only agg/normal/trigger/window) functions
>
> > With brackets it would be:
>
> > \df[antwS+] [PATTERN] list [only agg/normal/trigger/window] functions
>
> Yes, the brackets in the text match up with the brackets in the syntax,
> so I think this looks more sensible.
Still, my original proposal was \df[antw][S+]. The extra brackets are
obviously redundant, but if we're about providing cues, this is a good
cue IMO. It allows the [S+] to match the other lines.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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