Re: SHOW TABLES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: SHOW TABLES
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Msg-id 30E173C7-DAF3-4F34-99E0-19C409D7DBAA@gmail.com
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In response to Re: SHOW TABLES  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> 3. Add "SHOW xxx" and have it return a single query
>   Have it also issue "NOTICE: from psql, try \dt for more info"

A big -1 from me on that.  Going to a whole lot of trouble to implement something half as functional as what we have
alreadysounds like a huge lose to me. 

> If/when we have multiple sets returned from one query it should be simple to provide something pretty close to \d...
froma single command. 

Sounds to me like this is just about a prerequisite for this project.

...Robert
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