On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 19:32 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > That's a very sensible suggestion, we should give a hint for all common > commands SHOW, LIST, etc., even though we pick just one to implement. > > > That way we're not on the hook to maintain them forever, and we > > will be > > > doing people a favor by introducing them to the backslash > > commands > > That's a sentence I never thought to see written down
No kidding. We are not helping users by introducing them to \d commands. I will repeat what I said at the beginning of this postgres vs. postgresql thread: Yes. We should provide a single, well described grammar for interacting with objects in the database regardless of client. I should be able to open ANY SQL terminal, and type SHOW ME THE MONEY and have Benjamins fall out. The discussions of \ commands and psql are irrelevant to this thread. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
