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Kevin Grittner wrote: > Any solution which only works within psql isn't a solution for a > large part of the problem space people are trying to address. One > important goal is that if someone spends a day to whip up a GUI > query tool (as I did when I first started working in Java), it's > easy to get displays like we get from the psql backslash commands > (as it was in Sybase, which is what we were using at the time, > through sp_help and related stored procedures). I don't agree that this is an important goal. Certainly someone writing a GUI (or a new driver) should be expected to be familiar with the system catalogs. Moreover, a GUI relies on an underlying driver, and every driver should already be providing things like a list of tables natively. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201007191030 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkxEYZ0ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsiIlQCfdXDgTqletVez/r+pKHY4EcW6 QAsAoPLUmblzN2aNEw5DveHEav3XyB/K =TGq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
