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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
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Msg-id 200901211901.n0LJ1J710991@momjian.us
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribi?:
> 
> > Well, to do this you are going to need 'U' and 'S' modifiers, and then
> > we have to decide how \df is supposed to behave.
> 
> I think we should have first decided how it was supposed to behave, and
> later applied any patches.

Well, there was a lot of discussion in the Spring that the backslash
commands should be consistent, Greg Sabino Mullane went away to work on
the patch, but didn't finish until my prodding in October, so I then
applied it.  \df seemed to be the hot item, and the rest just fell into
place.

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