Re: bugfix: --echo-hidden is not supported by \sf statements

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-26T19:19:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Well, actually I think Pavel's got a point.  What about overloaded
> functions?  In \df we don't try to solve that problem, we just print
> them all:

To be honest, I was reading through that code the other night and could
have sworn that I saw us doing some kind of magic on the arguments under
\df, but of course I don't see it now.

> Now, maybe we *should* teach \df about handling parameter types and
> then \ef can piggyback on it, but that code isn't there now.

That's definitely the right approach, imv.  It should also work if only
a function name is provided and it's not overloaded, of course.

	Thanks,

		Stephen