Re: Viewing non-system objects in psql

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.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?

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greg