Re: psql questions: SQL, progname, copyright dates

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql questions: SQL, progname, copyright dates
Date: 2004-09-09 16:08:40
Message-ID: 6403.1094746120@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I talked to Greg via chat and it looks like '&' is the best choice for
> adding system object display:

> \d& shows system stuff

Yech, that's awful. It looks ugly and it commandeers a punctuation
symbol that we might wish to use for something else someday.

I thought the "S" suggestion was much better than this.

Personally I am not unhappy with the existing behavior, because (unlike
Greg I guess) I use \df and \do to look at system definitions all the
time. However I'm willing to accept \dfS on the grounds of symmetry
with the behavior for tables. I don't really want to put up with a less
convenient behavior *and* a gratuitously different syntax.

regards, tom lane

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