Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> > I got several emails thanking me for applying the patch, so there is
> > clearly user-demand for 'S'.
>
> Were any of them from people who had actually *used* the patch for more
> than five minutes? I think this is clearly a case of allowing abstract
> consistency considerations to override usability.
>
> The real problem here is that the 'S' suffix for \dt is a bad precedent
> for everything else. If you want consistency then we need to change
> that end of things. I think that the idea of a switch to omit system
> objects, rather than include them, might work.

Please test the attached patch; it reverts to pre-8.4 behavior if any
pattern is present for psql \d commands, including just a simple '*'.

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