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Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variablesin alphabetical order. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variablesin alphabetical order.
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Msg-id 20170201180850.aohbbjqcnuxbuu2r@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variablesin alphabetical order.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 2017-02-01 12:59:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
> 
> > This is a substantial usability improvement which nevertheless is hard
> > to imagine changes things that scripts relied on. I think it's worth
> > back-patching.
> 
> I'm not that excited about it personally, but I agree it would be unlikely
> to break anything.  Other votes?

-0.5 - I see very little reason to backpatch this over dozes of other
changes.

- Andres

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