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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
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Msg-id 20090121190525.GN4038@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> 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,

Yeah, apparently the idea that consistency is not necessarily the best
guiding principle did not emerge until after the patch was applied :-(

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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