Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices
Date: 2019-05-07 20:44:53
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaufnvnN7bp_xkefka+dL40nMe+j0uAfLELqDwu6y=G_Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:30 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > Not unless you want to break every regression test that uses \d.
> > Instability of the output is also a reason not to show the
> > toast table's name in the parent's \d[+].
>
> So we need a way to turn it off. That doesn't seem like it'd be hard to
> implement and the information is certainly quite useful.

Ugh. It's not really worth it if we have to go to such lengths.

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Robert Haas
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