Yeah, I've rethough about it and it does seem a bit out-there ;) ... I'm
sure there was one time where I encountered a situation where you would
want to use the \d? commands in an SQL statement environment but I can't
even begin to remember... so maybe it wasn't that important afterall and
regex'ing will do just fine.
I do feel though that the \df <regex> functionality would be useful in
other catalog queries (thank james, I didn't know that what they were
called) e.g. \do <regex> or \dt <regex> (which would get you all tables
containing <regex> e.g. titles, tileauthors, titleditors etc, as opposed to
\d titles which would get you just table titles).
or am I being dim again? [that dreaded feeling of posting something really
stupid...]
Cheers,
S.
>> >I realize you want it inside the psql program, but the above should get the
>> >same results pretty quick...james
>>
>> Thanks for that James... I've been trying to work out how to do it for ages!
>
>I will look into implementing \df kjasdf, and do it as a regex!
>
>>
>> I have to agree with Richard though, it would be very nice to have it
>> within psql. Furthermore, it would be great if such functionality
>> could be extended to all \d? queries. In fact, and I'm sure there actually
>> is a way to this if you're more knowledgeable than I, since most of these
>> \d? queries basically yield a 'SQL' table, wouldn't be nice to be able to
>> perform SQL on the (e.g. select * from \df where function = 'int2_text';
>> etc.)
>>
>> Or am I just getting carried away! 8)
>
>That is a little strange.
>
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