| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Usability fail with psql's \dp command |
| Date: | 2018-07-31 14:39:29 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwbnDx1Hc-Db_xBxyEp7XsGh7T+Mq_4RtxOj8-pQUxd-Pg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > Please find attached a patch to fix this. Would this be a
> > back-patchable bug?
>
> In my view, this is not a bug fix, but an improvement, and therefore
> should not be back-patched.
I was leaning toward "bug fix" but what we are actually doing here is
compensating for our default presentation of null being the empty string;
so I'm inclined to side with "usability" and not back-patching.
David J.
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