Re: Bug in pg_describe_object, patch v2

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> IMO, what this patch needs is to not output the types unless they are
>>> actually different from the default (which can be inferred from the AM
>>> type and the function arguments). That would fix my concern about it
>>> emitting information that is 99.44% useless.
>
>> I guess we could do that, but I don't understand how you're supposed
>> to infer them, which means probably a lot of other people won't
>> either.
>
> Read the CREATE OPERATOR CLASS source code.  (It likely would be best to
> refactor that a bit so it would expose some way to obtain the implied
> defaults --- I don't think that's done explicitly now, and it's
> certainly not exported from opclasscmds.c.)

I didn't say I *couldn't* take the time to understand this; I said I
think it'd be more clear to more people if we just printed the types
all the time.

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