Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0304162113580.1750-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Sean Chittenden writes:

> I don't think these should be hacked into the backend/libpq, but I
> think it'd be a huge win to hack in "show *" support into psql for
> MySQL users so they can type:
>
>      SHOW (databases|tables|views|functions|triggers|schemas);

Well, we (will) have the information schema, and if you like you can put
it in the path and write

select * from tables;

etc., which seems just as good.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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