Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
Date: 2017-02-01 18:08:50
Message-ID: 20170201180850.aohbbjqcnuxbuu2r@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-02-01 12:59:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
>
> > This is a substantial usability improvement which nevertheless is hard
> > to imagine changes things that scripts relied on. I think it's worth
> > back-patching.
>
> I'm not that excited about it personally, but I agree it would be unlikely
> to break anything. Other votes?

-0.5 - I see very little reason to backpatch this over dozes of other
changes.

- Andres

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