Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date: 2009-01-16 01:40:39
Message-ID: 1232070040.30828.3.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 20:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > gah, I find that to be terrible. If we wanted to compromise, I'd
> > rather have \df do what it does today, to keep backwards-compat and
> > not confuse users, and \dfU to do what I want 99% of the time.
>
> This seems to me to be the compromise most likely to dissatisfy everyone
> the least ...

I could live with that. Although I really think we should review how it
interacts with search paths, but that could be a 8.5 thing.

Joshua D. Drake

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