Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Subject: Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date: 2009-01-20 15:32:29
Message-ID: 20090120153228.GD3940@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian escribió:

> In thinking last night, I am now wondering if a letter is really the
> right symbol for this. We already have letter flags which control
> object type selection, but the system table addition is kind of
> independent of those flags, like '+' now. I am thinking maybe '&' is
> the right symbol rather than 'A' or 'S'.

& is probably going to be useful as a modifier when we have concurrent
psql, so I suggest you do not use it here. Or maybe not, but in any
case see
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/8204.1207689056%40sss.pgh.pa.us
before you use &.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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