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Remove psql's ancient hack that suppressed functions taking or returning

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cstring from the output of \df.  Now that the default behavior is to
exclude all system functions, the de-cluttering rationale for this behavior
seems pretty weak; and it was always quite confusing/unhelpful if you were
actually looking for I/O functions.  (Not to mention if you were looking
for encoding converters or other cases that might take or return cstring.)
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Tom Lane
2009-04-08 22:29:30 +00:00
parent e0daf7fc3c
commit 4703250a76
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doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.222 2009/04/04 00:39:14 tgl Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.223 2009/04/08 22:29:30 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -1055,16 +1055,10 @@ testdb=&gt;
<note>
<para>
To look up functions taking argument or returning values of a specific
To look up functions taking arguments or returning values of a specific
type, use your pager's search capability to scroll through the <literal>\df</>
output.
</para>
<para>
To reduce clutter, <literal>\df</> does not show data type I/O
functions. This is implemented by ignoring functions that accept
or return type <type>cstring</>.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>