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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: yuanchao zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #19417: '\dD' fails to list user-defined domains that shadow built-in type names (e.g., 'numeric')
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:20:23 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwZiwvqLo4OryjsBjnQjzDu7c_GkJrYiUuwoJKCGLTSGKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 6:17 PM yuanchao zhang <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Alternatively, we could explicitly explain the object display mechanism in
> the command's help documentation, or there are other ways to avoid this.
>

There is no bug here.  Discussions on how to improve the documentation do
not belong on this mailing list.

If you have a concrete improvement to propose we have a -docs list for such
things.  But the system is complex and sometimes requires reading multiple
areas to understand how something works.

David J.


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