On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 18:35, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 17:38 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> Is there an actual common use-case for having these commands available >> for *non-psql* interfaces? > > There are many interfaces out there and people writing new ones > everyday. We just wrote an interface for Android, for example. > > It is arguably *more* important to do this from non-psql interfaces. > > There should be one command to "display a list of tables" and it needs > to be easily guessable for those who have forgotten.
The downside is that you are then limited to what can be returned as a resultset. A "\d table" in psql returns a hell of a lot more than that. So do we keep two separate formats for this? Or do we remove the current, useful, output format in favor of a much worse formt just to support more clients? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
