Re: multi-backend psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: multi-backend psql
Date
Msg-id 3F95DC63.3090905@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: multi-backend psql  (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: multi-backend psql  (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>)
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> There is always the biggest evil of all... Putting SHOW / DESCRIBE /
> HELP commands into the backend itself. I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes
> that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining 4 different versions of
> queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql
> backward or forward compatible should go an additional step to assist
> other frontends as well.

All that means for phpPgAdmin and pgAdmin is that we'll have to support 
5 different queries :P

We could use information_schema...

Chris




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