From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch |
Date: | 2009-01-15 16:50:46 |
Message-ID: | 7445.1232038246@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think this falls in the category of "be careful what you wish for,
>> you might get it". It is now blindingly obvious that the folks asking
>> for that had not actually lived with the behavior for any period of
>> time.
> I got several emails thanking me for applying the patch, so there is
> clearly user-demand for 'S'.
Were any of them from people who had actually *used* the patch for more
than five minutes? I think this is clearly a case of allowing abstract
consistency considerations to override usability.
The real problem here is that the 'S' suffix for \dt is a bad precedent
for everything else. If you want consistency then we need to change
that end of things. I think that the idea of a switch to omit system
objects, rather than include them, might work.
regards, tom lane
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