Re: psql :: support for \ev viewname and \sv viewname - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Subject Re: psql :: support for \ev viewname and \sv viewname
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Msg-id CAFcNs+ozbFTjUoAuicnDtWzLb-JgkiUW85VT17K8A2EHhu49UA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: psql :: support for \ev viewname and \sv viewname  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:


2015-05-04 11:21 GMT+02:00 Petr Korobeinikov <pkorobeinikov@gmail.com>:
Hackers!

I'm proposing to add two new subcommands in psql:
1. \ev viewname - edit view definition with external editor (like \ef for function)
2. \sv viewname - show view definition (like \sf for function, for consistency)

+1


+1

During the FISL13 [1] (year 2012) me and other friends (Leonardo César, Dickson Guedes and Fernando Ike) implemented a very WIP patch [2] to support the "\ev" subcommand in psql. Unfortunately we didn't go ahead with this work. :-(

I'll do some reviews.

Regards,

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Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Consultoria/Coaching PostgreSQL

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