Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?
Date: 2020-04-20 21:31:41
Message-ID: 20200420213140.GA29785@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Apr-20, Tom Lane wrote:

> Victor Yegorov <vyegorov(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > While table 9.5 with functions looks quite nice, I quite dislike 9.4 with
> > operators.
> > Previously, I could lookup operator in the leftmost column and read on.
> > Right now I have to look through the whole table (well, not really, but
> > still) to find the operator.
>
> Aside from the alternatives already discussed,

There's one with a separate column for the operator, without types, at
the left (the "with names" example at
https://postgr.es/m/14380.1587242177@sss.pgh.pa.us ). That seemed
pretty promising -- not sure why it was discarded.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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