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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date
Msg-id 9435.1232131075@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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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?
        regards, tom lane


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