From: | Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | 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: Updated backslash consistency patch |
Date: | 2009-01-15 18:25:42 |
Message-ID: | 653496D0-5C9B-4C7C-835C-82314C4F5F66@enterprisedb.com |
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How many of the people who find the new behaviour are mainly postgres
hackers and not users?
I remember finding the behaviour *very* frustrating when I was a user
and was mainly concerned with maintaining my own functions. I hardly
ever used \df for system functions.
Now the situation is reversed - I mainly work with test databases with
simple schemas. But it's common for users to have hundreds of
functions - and much more likely that they would want to look them up
by name.
--
Greg
On 15 Jan 2009, at 16:39, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> The basic goal of the patch was to make 'S' consistent for all \d
>> backslash commands, and we had a lot of discussion about it, and many
>> people asked for it (I can't find my user functions).
>
> I think this falls in the category of "be careful what you wish for,
> you might get it". It is now blindingly obvious that the folks asking
> for that had not actually lived with the behavior for any period of
> time.
>
> Personally I think we should just revert the patch and go back to the
> behavior we've had for umpteen years. However, if you cannot bear to
> leave well enough alone, how about *reversing* the sense --- that is,
> default behavior is to show everything and there is an extra character
> to omit system objects?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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