Re: [PATCHES] Show INHERIT in \du

On 21/03/2008, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> The code is now set up so that it can pass an entire field value
> through gettext(), but if gettext recognizes the strings "foo" and
> "bar" that doesn't mean it will do anything useful with "foo\nbar",
> which is what this patch would require.
>

Ouch!

> I suspect that to solve this in a non-kluge fashion we'd need to make
> \du pull over the plain boolean and integer values, then build a new
> PGresult data structure on its own. Ugh. (Actually, without any
> support from libpq for building PGresults, it's hard to imagine doing
> that in a way that wouldn't be a kluge itself.)
>
> Or we could go back to the drawing board on what the output ought to
> look like.
>

We can't just build the output table by hand like
describeOneTableDetails does? Admittedly it's kludgy, but it's not an
unprecedented kludge.