Re: psql's \d versus included-index-column feature

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql's \d versus included-index-column feature
Date: 2018-07-18 21:05:44
Message-ID: 20180718210544.ynej3c6oos45u5t7@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Jul-18, Tom Lane wrote:

> I can sympathize with the eyestrain argument against t/f, but the
> above doesn't seem like an improvement --- in particular, "Data"
> as the column header seems quite content-free. My counterproposal
> is to keep "Key" as the header and use "Yes"/"No" as the values.

I think "Key: no" is a bit obscure -- using "included" is a bit more
self-documenting and lends better to documentation searches.

> I'd be OK with "Key"/"Included" as the values if someone can
> propose an on-point column header to go with those.

"Role"?

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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