On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:00:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Kupershmidt <schmi...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Colin 't Hart <co...@sharpheart.org> wrote: > >> Attached please find a trivial patch for psql which adds a \n > >> meta command as a shortcut for typing set search_path =. > > > I think the use-case is a bit narrow: saving a few characters > > typing on a command not everyone uses very often (I don't), at the > > expense of adding yet another command to remember. > > Another point here is that we are running low on single-letter > backslash command names in psql. I'm not sure that "SET > SEARCH_PATH" is so useful as to justify using up one of the ones > that are left. > > ISTM there was some discussion awhile back about user-definable > typing shortcuts in psql.
In some sense, we already have them: \set FOO 'SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity;' ... :FOO Was there more to it? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
