Re: Can you create aliases in the psql shell? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Modulok
Subject Re: Can you create aliases in the psql shell?
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In response to Re: Can you create aliases in the psql shell?  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>)
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>> Is there a way to create command aliases in the psql shell? I can never
>
>> remember all the \d* commands and have to look them up every time. If I
>> could
>> create things like \list_databases, \list_tables, \list_roles, etc,
>> it would be
>> much easier for me to remember.
>>
>> Is there a way to create such aliases? I'm using 9.2.3 if that matters. I
>> didn't see anything in the man page. If not is there another command line
>> client interface?
>
> \set list_databases '\\l'
>
> Then you can type :list_databases to get the same effect as \l
>
> -Kevin

Thank you. This is perfect!

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