> >>>>> "Thurstan" == Thurstan R McDougle <trmcdougle@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> Thurstan> In general EXPLAIN could be expanded to be a command to
> Thurstan> return an explanation and stats of many items. There could
> Thurstan> also be EXPLAIN that only shows fields and EXPLAIN VERBOSE
> Thurstan> that also shows more detail such as stats (as that tends to
> Thurstan> take more time to collect).
>
> It would also be interesting to take everything that psql does and put
> each of them into a view so that it could be queried directly.
> There's no reason that the magic should reside in client-side code.
> It'd also make psql much simpler. :) I mean, why is "\d" anything
> other than "select * from pg_table_view;", with all the logic to
> compute that table in the view code?
>
> Unless having a view on the server is expensive. Is a server view
> expensive if nobody calls it? I mean, it's not maintained like an
> index, is it?
Added to TODO:
* Move psql backslash information into views
Makes sense.
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