> On Oct 12, 2021, at 10:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:44 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>> You're asking us to imagine a counterfactual. But this counterfactual
>> bug report would have to describe a real practical problem.
>
> Yes. And I think this one should be held to the same standard: \d
> mydb.myschema.mytable not working is potentially a real, practical
> problem. \d sdlgkjdss.dsgkjsk.sdgskldjgds.myschema.mytable not working
> isn't.
I favor restoring the v13 behavior, but I don't think \d mydb.myschema.mytable was ever legitimate. You got exactly
thesame results with \d nosuchdb.myschema.mytable, meaning the user was given a false sense of security that the
databasename was being used to fetch the definition from the database they specified.
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