Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:31:41 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?
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On 2020-Apr-20, Tom Lane wrote:

> Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com> writes:
> > While table 9.5 with functions looks quite nice, I quite dislike 9.4 with
> > operators.
> > Previously, I could lookup operator in the leftmost column and read on.
> > Right now I have to look through the whole table (well, not really, but
> > still) to find the operator.
> 
> Aside from the alternatives already discussed,

There's one with a separate column for the operator, without types, at
the left (the "with names" example at
https://postgr.es/m/14380.1587242177@sss.pgh.pa.us ).  That seemed
pretty promising -- not sure why it was discarded.

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