On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Julien Tachoires <julmon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/8 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Julien Tachoires <julmon@gmail.com> writes:
>>> About \ds behaviour, I think to add 2 columns :
>>> - 'LastValue'
>>> - 'Increment'
>>
>> That would make the command a great deal slower, since it would have to
>> access each sequence to get that info. I don't object to adding such
>> columns to \ds+, but I don't think it's a good idea to put them in the
>> basic command.
>
> Ok.
>
>> The other problem you're going to have here is that there is in fact no
>> such command as "\ds" (nor "\ds+"); rather, it's a special case of
>> \dtsvi. As such, putting any relkind-specific info into the result is
>> problematic. I think you're going to have to invent a different command
>> if you want there to be sequence-specific columns.
>
> Yes, that's why I plan to create a new function listSequences() and
> call it from src/bin/psql/command.c :
> + /* \d* commands */
> + else if (cmd[0] == 'd')
> + {
> ...
> + case 's':
> + success = listSequences(pattern, show_verbose);
> + break;
What happens if the user does this:
\dis
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