Re: Usability fail with psql's \dp command - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Usability fail with psql's \dp command
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Msg-id CAKFQuwbnDx1Hc-Db_xBxyEp7XsGh7T+Mq_4RtxOj8-pQUxd-Pg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Usability fail with psql's \dp command  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> Please find attached a patch to fix this.  Would this be a
> back-patchable bug?

In my view, this is not a bug fix, but an improvement, and therefore
should not be back-patched.

I was leaning toward "bug fix" but what we are actually doing here is compensating for our default presentation of null being the empty string; so I'm inclined to side with "usability" and not back-patching.

David J.

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