Re: [GENERAL] translate "bug"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] translate "bug"?
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Msg-id 199807090411.AAA06899@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] translate "bug"?  (Stuart Rison <stuart@NOJUNK_ludwig.ucl.ac.uk>)
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> Yeah, I've rethough about it and it does seem a bit out-there ;) ... I'm
> sure there was one time where I encountered a situation where you would
> want to use the \d? commands in an SQL statement environment but I can't
> even begin to remember... so maybe it wasn't that important afterall and
> regex'ing will do just fine.
>
> I do feel though that the \df <regex> functionality would be useful in
> other catalog queries (thank james, I didn't know that what they were
> called) e.g. \do <regex> or \dt <regex> (which would get you all tables
> containing <regex> e.g. titles, tileauthors, titleditors etc, as opposed to
> \d titles which would get you just table titles).
>
> or am I being dim again? [that dreaded feeling of posting something really
> stupid...]

I think these are good ideas.  I will implement them for 6.4.  Glad you
are using the new features.

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