On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 10:31 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
> > The name has evolved from \dcp over various longer \d-things to the
> > more verbose \dconfig. How about we evolve it even more and just call
> > it \config?
>
> I think people felt that it should be part of the \d family.
> Also, because we have \connect and \conninfo, you'd need to
> type at least five characters before you could tab-complete,
> whereas \dconfig is unique at four (you just need \dco).
Regarding this point, I kind of think that \dconfig is a break with
established precedent, but in a good way. Previous additions have
generally tried to pick some vaguely mnemonic sequence of letters that
somehow corresponds to what's being listed, but you have to be pretty
hard-core to remember what \db and \dAc and \drds do. \dconfig is
probably easier to remember.
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Robert Haas
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