Re: BUG #2177: (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated as argument

I agree we cannot just throw the semi-colon away, but the action of
"\d" to assume the semi-colon is an argument and thus invalid is in my
view wrong.

On 1/19/06, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> We can't just throw away semicolons, e.g.:
>
> \test=> \f ;
> Field separator is ";".
>
> The current behavior seems pretty good. It doesn't seem worth
> improving.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Giles Morant wrote:
> >
> > The following bug has been logged online:
> >
> > Bug reference: 2177
> > Logged by: Giles Morant
> > Email address: giles(dot)pg(at)chaletpomme(dot)com
> > PostgreSQL version: 8.1.1
> > Operating system: Linux (Gentoo)
> > Description: (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated as
> > argument
> > Details:
> >
> > When describing tables/view/indexes using \d, a semi-colon is optional:
> > e.g. \d users;
> > or: \d users
> > Both give the same (correct) results.
> >
> > However, if there is a space between "users" and the semi-colon, the
> > semi-colon is then treated as an argument and this occurs:
> > \d users ;
> > <cut lots of table info>
> > \d: extra argument ";" ignored
> >
> > The semi-colon should be ignored silently, in my view- "SELECT 1+2 ;" for
> > example doesn't raise an alert.
> >
> > I searched the mailing lists to find a previous report of this very minor
> > bug; the closest I found was some discussion in 2001 of stripping
> > semi-colons from the end of such strings but the discussion seemed to stop
> > with no resolution.
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2001-09/msg00285.php
> > Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Giles Morant.
> >
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