Re: SHOW TABLES

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rob Wultsch <wultsch(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SHOW TABLES
Date: 2010-07-16 21:38:11
Message-ID: 1279316291.3623.11.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 07:36 +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 07:26, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yes. We should provide a single, well described grammar for interacting
> > with objects in the database regardless of client. I should be able to
> > open ANY SQL terminal, and type SHOW ME THE MONEY and have Benjamins
> > fall out.
>
> postgres=# SHOW ME THE MONEY;
> WARNING: THE MONEY is deprecated in this version of Postgres and may
> be discarded in a future version
> HINT: Use SHOW ME THE NUMERIC with the desired precision instead.

Funny, but no longer true:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-money.html

(although I wish we would get rid of the type)

JD

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