Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date: 2009-01-16 18:37:55
Message-ID: 9435.1232131075@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I feel pretty strongly that making the pattern search against a
> different list of stuff than what the same command would display
> without the pattern is confusing and a bad idea. It's a bad idea
> regardless of which particular backslash-sequence we're talking about.

Well, I'm perfectly happy to drop that stipulation and just go with

\df -- all
\dfS -- system only
\dfU -- non-system only

but are we willing to change \d and \dt to work that way too?
Or should we leave them inconsistent?

regards, tom lane

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