Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Dimitri Fontaine" <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: "David Christensen" <david(at)endpoint(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>,"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql
Date: 2010-01-20 15:30:03
Message-ID: 4B56CD1B020000250002E866@gw.wicourts.gov
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:

> I'll give my vote to Peter's idea that show tables; should better
> act as if you typed \d.

I guess we don't need a "tables" GUC. Show all wouldn't include it?
Would we require a semicolon? Do we support \d-style globs?

Still seems kinda messy. +1 for help to show the PostgreSQL command
as a guess for what they want to do. -1 for MySQL emulation.

-Kevin

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