Re: SHOW TABLES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES
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Msg-id 1279316291.3623.11.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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In response to Re: SHOW TABLES  (Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 07:36 +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 07:26, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Yes. We should provide a single, well described grammar for interacting
> > with objects in the database regardless of client. I should be able to
> > open ANY SQL terminal, and type SHOW ME THE MONEY and have Benjamins
> > fall out.
>
> postgres=# SHOW ME THE MONEY;
> WARNING: THE MONEY is deprecated in this version of Postgres and may
> be discarded in a future version
> HINT: Use SHOW ME THE NUMERIC with the desired precision instead.

Funny, but no longer true:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-money.html

(although I wish we would get rid of the type)

JD

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