Re: Closing some 8.4 open items

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
Date: 2009-04-07 05:51:22
Message-ID: 20090407055122.GA13079@fetter.org
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:57:46PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:55:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 02:07:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> The \df thing? That's something it'd be okay to revisit during
> > >> beta, IMHO.
> >
> > > OK, I'll work on this tomorrow :)
> >
> > I think what we were lacking was consensus on what it should do, not
> > code ...
>
> I was thinking I'd knock out a proposal or two.

Please find enclosed one way to handle it, this being prepending
WINDOW to the result types in \df.

Another way, patch coming tomorrow, would be to add a \dw and remove
the functions where pg_proc.iswindowing is true from \df.

Cheers,
David.
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