On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote:
> Some of the discussions about making psql more user friendly (more
> tab completions help, exit, etc) got me thinking about other ways
> that psql could be more friendly, and the one that comes to mind is
> our terse but cryptic \d* commands.
They are indeed terse and cryptic, and what's worse, they're not
available to clients other than psql, so I propose that we do what at
least MySQL, Oracle, and DB2 do and implement DESCRIBE as its own
command.
Especially handy would be a variant DESCRIBE CREATE, which would do
what it says on the label in a copy-and-paste-able form, but that's
not strictly necessary for the first cut.
Best,
David.
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