Re: Bug in pg_describe_object

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Not really. �AFAIR, there are two cases that exist in practice,
>> depending on which AM you're talking about:
>> 
>> 1. The recorded types match the input types of the operator/function
>> � (btree & hash).
>> 2. The recorded types are always the same as the opclass's input type
>> � (gist & gin).
>> 
>> In neither case does printing those types really add much information.
>> That's why it's not there now.

> I don't get it.  If two different items that exist in the system out
> of the box have the same description, it seems clear that relevant
> piece of disambiguating information exists nowhere in the description
> string.

The "relevant piece of disambiguating information" is the function
name+parameters in the first case, or the opclass name in the second.
        regards, tom lane