On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote: > Some of the discussions about making psql more user friendly (more > tab completions help, exit, etc) got me thinking about other ways > that psql could be more friendly, and the one that comes to mind is > our terse but cryptic \d* commands.
They are indeed terse and cryptic, and what's worse, they're not available to clients other than psql, so I propose that we do what at least MySQL, Oracle, and DB2 do and implement DESCRIBE as its own command. Especially handy would be a variant DESCRIBE CREATE, which would do what it says on the label in a copy-and-paste-able form, but that's not strictly necessary for the first cut. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
