Re: To do for psql to show installable extensions

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Jeff Janes wrote:
>> I thought of \dx+, but the + is already used to show the objects
>> associated with the extensions. (Althought it seems like it would
>> more in keeping with other usage if \dx+ only listed the objects if it
>> was given a pattern, and did what I propose if given no pattern)

> I hate the pattern/no pattern discrepancy -- I vote not to propagate it
> any further.

The set of things that is known about an installed extension is quite
a bit different from what is known about an uninstalled-but-available
one. To make \dx print both categories would require dumbing it down
to print only the intersection of those things, or else some fancy
footwork and a lot of NULL column values. -1 for that. (This is exactly
why pg_available_extensions is separate from pg_extension in the first
place.)

I'm okay with inventing some new command like "\dxu" or "\dxa" (mnemonic
"uninstalled" or "available" respectively).

regards, tom lane