Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 17:20:29
Message-ID: 1232126429.16299.13.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:14 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > One issue here is that plain \d gets less useful because it'll now
> > include system catalogs. We could add the additional rule that
> > the above statements apply only when a pattern is specified, and
> > without a pattern you get just user stuff (so omitting a pattern
> > corresponds to pattern "*" with the U modifier, not just "*").
> > This would probably make it a bit easier to have exactly the same
> > rules across the board.
> >
> > Again, "\dfS" would be a bit useless, unless we say that the implicit
> > U modifier for no pattern doesn't override an explicit S modifier.
> >
> > Comments? Does this cover all the cases?
>
> So would "\df" then be equivalent to "\dU"? Or am I misunderstanding
> something?

\df would act as it does now. Showing you *everything*.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> David
>
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