Re: Remove source code display from \df+?

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 17:20, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> writes:
> > [ 0001-Remove-source-code-display-from-df-v6.patch ]
>
> Pushed after some editorialization on the test case.
>

Thanks!

One thing I noticed while testing is that if you apply \df+ to an
> aggregate function, it will show "Internal name" of "aggregate_dummy".
> While that's an accurate description of what's in prosrc, it seems
> not especially useful and perhaps indeed confusing to novices.
> So I thought about suppressing it.  However, that would require
> a server-version-dependent test and I wasn't quite convinced it'd
> be worth the trouble.  Any thoughts on that?
>

I think it’s OK. Right now \df+ claims that the source code for an
aggregate function is “aggregate_dummy”; that’s probably more untrue than
saying that its internal name is “aggregate_dummy”. There are several
features of aggregate functions that are always defined the same way by the
creation process; who’s to say they don’t all have a shared dummy internal
name?