On 4/15/22 15:52, David G. Johnston
wrote:
Isn't the above example exactly my case? It seems to work as "match at least these leading args" which in my mind appends a silent ",*". But that's just me.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 2:30 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/15/22 15:18, David G. Johnston wrote:
Wow. An old bad habit of using parens, I guess?On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 2:04 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:but have not found a combination of name/args for genome_threshold_mono(text,text,double precision)
Per the fine documentation:
\df[anptwS+] [ pattern [ arg_pattern ... ] ]
So the correct formulation is:
\df genome_threshold_mono text text 'double precision'
You need to quote the fourth argument to protect the embedded space as a character and not an argument separator.
David J.
Do you consider this correct behaviour?
barnard=# \df public.genome_threshold_mono text,text
List of functions
Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types | Type
--------+-----------------------+------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+------
public | genome_threshold_mono | uuid | pbs_name text, genome_name text | func
public | genome_threshold_mono | uuid | pbs_name text, genome_name text, conf double precision | func
(2 rows)
I cannot reproduce that on head:
\df test_function textList of functions
Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types | Type
--------+---------------+------------------+------------------------------+------
public | test_function | text | text, double precision | func
public | test_function | text | text, text, double precision | func
(2 rows)
Do you take it as inconsequential that they both deal with specifics of named functions and both make use of that functions argument list and are part of the same meta-function world within psql?
\df test_function text,text
List of functions
Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types | Type
--------+------+------------------+---------------------+------
(0 rows)
i.e, is it automatically wildcarded?
No, easy enough to prove, just mis-spell "text" and "text' in the first example
And then, I dare say, this is just plain inconsistent, vis parens
barnard=# \sf public.genome_threshold_mono text,text
ERROR: invalid name syntax
So what? \df and \sf have different goals in life; it should be expected they behave differently. Specifically, \sf doesn't use patterns while \df does.
David J.
