Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date
Msg-id 11119.1232137016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I can't shake the feeling that this is about a couple
> of PostgreSQL hackers (yourself included) not wanting to type \dfS or
> \dfA or something to get the behavior they currently get with \df.  If
> that's the case, come off it, because there's lots of evidence on this
> thread (and in all likelihood elsewhere) that this behavior is not
> what end-users want.

As was made clear at the beginning of the thread, that's what they
*think* they want, without any experience with a system that actually
behaves that way.  And yes I do believe I know better, both from knowing
how the system works and from actual experience with the ill-considered
patch that's now in HEAD.  I'm willing to provide a "U" modifier but
I think it will be a serious error to make that the default behavior.
        regards, tom lane


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