Re: opaque function not accepted (without error message)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jules(dot)alberts(at)arbodienst-limburg(dot)nl
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: opaque function not accepted (without error message)
Date: 2002-08-14 15:16:23
Message-ID: 8472.1029338183@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jules Alberts" <jules(dot)alberts(at)arbodienst-limburg(dot)nl> writes:
>> Note that the \df command does not show functions which return opaque.

> Thanks Peter, I didn't know that. Is there any reason why they are not
> shown?

The idea is to avoid cluttering the display with I/O functions for
datatypes, but I think it's overdoing it. Sooner or later we're going
to subdivide "opaque" into a set of more crisply-defined
pseudo-datatypes, and maybe then we can make \df smarter about what
not to show.

regards, tom lane

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