Robert Haas wrote: > I'd like to be able to list comments on objects of a particular type. > And, yeah, I'd like to be able to list all the aggregates that take a > numeric argument, or all the functions that take, say, an argument of > type internal. Right now, this is an ENORMOUS pain in the neck. I > usually end up running psql -c '<some backslash command>' | grep | > awk ... or something like that. I have no idea what Windows users do. > I'm sure it's possible to write a query to do it, but it's not > anything approaching easy. All of this talk about backslash commands > being powerful rings totally hollow for me. For ordinary, day to day > tasks like listing all my tables, or looking at the details of a > particular table, they're great. I use them all the time and would > still use them even if some other syntax were available. But there is > no reasonable way to pass options to them, and that to me is a pretty > major drawback.
I am concerned that implementing a command syntax to show complex output like above effectively means re-implementing a subset of SQL, and that subset will never be as flexible. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
