Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I feel pretty strongly that making the pattern search against a
>> different list of stuff than what the same command would display
>> without the pattern is confusing and a bad idea. It's a bad idea
>> regardless of which particular backslash-sequence we're talking about.
>
> Well, I'm perfectly happy to drop that stipulation and just go with
>
> \df -- all
> \dfS -- system only
> \dfU -- non-system only
>
> but are we willing to change \d and \dt to work that way too?
> Or should we leave them inconsistent?
I think changing \dt would confuse the heck out of people. Far more
than changing \df to be consistent with \dt would be.
So my votes, in order of preference, are:
1) make \df consistent with \dt
2) leave them inconsistent
--Josh
