Re: psql backslash consistency - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: psql backslash consistency
Date
Msg-id 200505270945.53437.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: psql backslash consistency  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: psql backslash consistency  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> > Attached is my "backslash consistency" patch which basically makes
> > all the backslash commands behave as \dt does: \d* shows non-system
> > objects, and \d*S shows system objects.
>
> Could we have a way to turn this off?  At least for functions and
> operators?  For my usage, at least, this will be a serious step
> backwards in usefulness.

I see hardly any use case for showing only user-defined functions or
types by default.  I think consistency is not necessarily desirable
here.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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