Re: SHOW TABLES

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SHOW TABLES
Date: 2010-07-15 21:44:12
Message-ID: 1279230252.1735.17492.camel@ebony
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On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:44 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> That seems rather wretched for machine-parsability, which I think is
> an important property for anything we do in this area.

I completely disagree. This is for humans only, and mostly newbies only.

Anybody that wants structured output can type the SQL and get as much
structure as they want. I'm not reinventing the whole wheel.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services

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