Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date
Msg-id 200901201542.n0KFgaV29667@momjian.us
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribi?:
> 
> > In thinking last night, I am now wondering if a letter is really the
> > right symbol for this.  We already have letter flags which control
> > object type selection, but the system table addition is kind of
> > independent of those flags, like '+' now.  I am thinking maybe '&' is
> > the right symbol rather than 'A' or 'S'.
> 
> & is probably going to be useful as a modifier when we have concurrent
> psql, so I suggest you do not use it here.  Or maybe not, but in any
> case see
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/8204.1207689056%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> before you use &.

Yea, I thought '&' might be coming for that someday.  I figured it
wouldn't be used for backslash commands, but why confuse things.

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