Re: Bug in pg_describe_object, patch v2

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
>> Here is a very simple change of the patch to make the output look more
>> like the syntax of ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY to improve consistency.
>
> 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.

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