Re: SHOW TABLES

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:20:12PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> Just for the record, I've never ever met anyone that said "Oh, this \d
> syntax makes so much sense. I'm a real convert to Postgres now you've
> shown me this". The reaction is always the opposite one; always
> negative. Which detracts from our efforts elsewhere.
>
Ah, that's true, we've never met in person ... Let me say that I recall
finding the clean separation of what the client implements vs. what the
server implements very useful when I was new to postgresql. Anything
that doesn't start with a backslash works equally well from psql and
from python/psycopg2, for example. If you make SHOW variants that are
actually client side \d commands, you break that.

Ross
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