Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
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Msg-id 603c8f070901161150r2c6224ddmaa63a7cca6af3644@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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 you should make:

\df - non-system only
\dfS - system only
\dfA - all

Then you could make \dt the same way, and it wouldn't involve breaking
the way \dt works now.

...Robert


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