Thread

Failure to show descriptions in \df command

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-11-13T16:35:47Z

Peter, I no longer see the pg_description descriptions when using the
\do, \df, and \dT commands.

The commands are much less useful without the descriptions.  Seems \dd
with a string is much smarter, and pulls descriptions based on string
matching.

Interesting that \dd shows descriptions of everything.

Not sure how to recommend you change this.  The new \df and \do
displays are much clearer without the descriptions.  It seems \df and
\do show additional information about argument types and return values,
while \dd shows comments.

Maybe just add descriptions to \dT, and suggest people use \dd to get
info about specific operators of functions?  But that kind of messes the
clarity of using \dd for descriptions.

I am stumped.  Maybe it can't be improved.

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