On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote: > I asked on IRC if there was any way to make \d behave like \d+ by default, > and davidfetter said no but suggest it here. > > endpoint_david pointed out you could use \d- to get the old behavior if you > wanted to temporarily negate the setting. > > So the proposal would be: > > \d+ does as it has always done, no change > \d- (new) always behaves like 'old' \d > \d acts as 'old' \d or as \d+, depending on the setting of > 'verbose_describe', set via \pset. > > Default setting of verbose_describe would presumably yield 'old' behavior. > > Motivation is that I like to see comments when they exist. Probably useful > for other reasons too.
Hmm, what about all the other + variants? Would this setting affect them? I'd suggest perhaps it should. Ross -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reeds...@rice.edu Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 The Connexions Project http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
