Re: Viewing non-system objects in psql

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Viewing non-system objects in psql
Date: 2005-06-16 21:23:06
Message-ID: 87ll5a8091.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:

> I maintain that it makes more sense for those few people who regularly look
> at system functions to add a "S" than to have everyone else have to do
> things such as "\df public."

@@aol(me too).

fwiw, i think "few" may be a bit optimistic here. Don't forget you can do
things like this if you forget what arguments array_lower takes:

db=> \df array_lower
List of functions
Result data type | Schema | Name | Argument data types
------------------+------------+-------------+---------------------
integer | pg_catalog | array_lower | anyarray, integer
(1 row)

Or this to get a list of all the standard array functions.

db=> \df array_*

P.S. The use of capital "s" is possible a source of some of the resistance. It
seems like a lowercase "s" or something else that doesn't need multiple
keystrokes would be a lot easier to type. Is there some limitation on the
\command parser that makes \dfs harder?

--
greg

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