Re: psql backslash consistency

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 03:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> > > Attached is my "backslash consistency" patch which basically makes
> > > all the backslash commands behave as \dt does: \d* shows non-system
> > > objects, and \d*S shows system objects.
> >
> > Could we have a way to turn this off? At least for functions and
> > operators? For my usage, at least, this will be a serious step
> > backwards in usefulness.

Do you have an implementation in mind? I'm having trouble coming up with
a way to do it cleanly.

>
> I see hardly any use case for showing only user-defined functions or
> types by default. I think consistency is not necessarily desirable
> here.
>

See the archives for previous discussion and/or use cases.

Robert Treat
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