On 10 July 2017 at 23:46, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:33:34PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Amit Langote >> <langote_amit...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: >> > I posted a patch upthread which makes \d hide partitions >> > (relispartition = true relations) and include them if the newly >> > proposed '!' modifier is specified. The '+' modifier is being >> > used to show additional detail of relations chosen to be listed at >> > all, so it seemed like a bad idea to extend its meaning to also >> > dictate whether partitions are to be listed. >> >> +1. That'd be a mess. > > With utmost respect, it's less messy than adding '!' to the already > way too random and mysterious syntax of psql's \ commands. What > should '\det!' mean? What about '\dT!'?
Fwiw as, I believe, the first person to make this complaint I would be fine with + listing all partitions. Imho adding an orthogonal "!" would be too much mental overhead for the user. If you want something different perhaps we can invent ++ for "even more information" and list partitions only if two plusses are provided. (I don't think the other way around makes sense since you might need a way to list permissions and comments without listing every partition if you're on a system with an unmanageable number of partitions but you never absolutely need a way to list partitions without the comments and permissions). At least that doesn't require the user to learn a new flag and how it interacts with everything else. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
