Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM David G. Johnston
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I feel like writing them as:
>> + (date, integer) -> date
>> makes more sense as they are mainly sorted on the operator symbol as opposed to the left operand.

> I thought about that, too, but I think the way Tom did it is better.
> It's much more natural to see it using the syntax with which it will
> actually be invoked.

Just for the record, I experimented with putting back an "operator name"
column, as attached.  I think it could be argued either way whether this
is an improvement or not.

Some notes:

* The column seems annoyingly wide, but the only way to make it narrower
is to narrow or eliminate the column title, which could be confusing.
Also, if there's not a fair amount of whitespace, it looks as if the
initial name is part of the signature, which is *really* confusing,
cf second screenshot.  (I'm not sure why the vertical rule is rendered
so much more weakly in this case, but it is.)

* I also tried it with valign="middle" to center the operator name among
its entries.  This was *not* an improvement, it largely breaks the
ability to see which entries belong to the name.

                        regards, tom lane