2010/7/17 Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com>: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:02 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: >> > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> Why must the backslash commands be more powerful than any alternative >> >> we might come up with? >> > >> > Because they encode alot of information in a character- something which >> > is next to impossible to do in "english". >> >> I don't think that "terse" and "powerful" are the same thing. One of my >> beefs with the backslash commands is that the syntax is not cleanly >> extensible. We have S and + as postfix modifiers, and that's fairly >> comprehensible, but as soon as you think about going much further with it, >> it starts to seem like alphabet soup. >> >> In fact, we're pretty close to alphabet soup already. Without looking at the >> help, what does \db do? What are the commands to list casts, conversions, >> and comments, respectively? What syntax would you propose for a backslash >> command to list comments, but only those on a certain object type? If you >> don't think we should have a backslash command for that, can you write an >> SQL query that lists comments on built-in aggregates in less than two >> minutes? How many people do you think can do it at all? >> >> I think "LIST COMMENTS ON SYSTEM AGGREGATES" would be an epic step forward >> in usability.
Every time I like psql from one reason, It is clean, what is SQL (server side) command and what is psql command (backslash command). So I am against to implement similar commands. Regards Pavel Stehule > > +1 > > JD > >> >> ...Robert > > -- > 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 > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
