Re: psql backslash consistency

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql backslash consistency
Date: 2005-05-27 07:45:52
Message-ID: 200505270945.53437.peter_e@gmx.net
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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.

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

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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