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

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-27T17:26:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2013/2/27 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>:
> Pavel,
>
> * Pavel Stehule (pavel.stehule@gmail.com) wrote:
>> this autocomplete routine doesn't know type synonyms
>>
>> so you cannot use int, varchar, ... :(
>
> Yes, I covered that and it's perfectly fine, imv.  Results from
> tab-completion and from \df output should work just fine.
>
> '\df myfunc(int)' doesn't work currently either.  In fact,
> '\df myfunc(integer)' doesn't work.

I though about it more, and this is bad example

we cannot use autocomplete or if we use, then more precious code is on
server side still - everywhere  where function autocomplete is used,
then function signature is reparesed again on server side.

So this is not a win

Regards

Pavel

>
>         Thanks,
>
>                 Stephen