[postgis-users] Postgis 2.0 wishlist

[Paul Ramsey]

On 15-May-07, at 4:33 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:

> If you're changing alle the function names, maybe it's time to make  
> system objects of them, stored in a seperate system schema (along  
> with the types, operators, etc)?

This is doable now, the main problem for newbies seems to be setting  
the search_path every single time so they have access to them.

> Other than that it would be nice to add descriptions to the  
> functions and operators in SQL, e.g. to indicate what the input for  
> each function should be when the number of arguments varies for  
> functions with equal names.

How does one recover those descriptions at the commandline? Does \d  
functionname work?

P