Re: [PATCH] "\ef " in psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Abhijit Menon-Sen
Subject Re: [PATCH] "\ef " in psql
Date
Msg-id 20080906194055.GA13295@toroid.org
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In response to Re: [PATCH] "\ef " in psql  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] "\ef " in psql  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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At 2008-09-06 14:58:25 -0400, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
>
> I wrote:
> > ... define
> > \ef with no argument as being the command that presents an empty
> > CREATE FUNCTION command template to fill in.
> 
> No complaints?  I'll go make that happen.

No complaints, it sounds fine to me.

> What about the general issue that neither \e nor \ef leave you with a
> presentation of what's in the query buffer?

I don't know how that can be fixed; but I agree with Brendan that it's
behaviour that people are used to, and that it can be left alone for
now.

-- ams


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