On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:43 AM, David Fetter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:18:19PM +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes:
* No built-in ways to get the information psql gets. "See what
psql is doing" isn't an option when somebody doesn't have psql on
hand.
Uhm, what information are you referring to here?
All the stuff that generates \d output is available only to psql.
When somebody wants to make another client, or even expose some of
that functionality, they pretty much have to roll it from scratch.
I'd say a good example close of this is the ability to generate full
create statements for database objects via an SQL command. I.e.
shelling out to pg_dump is not always a fun option.
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