On Saturday 10 January 2004 19:16, Jon Jensen wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > ISTM there are three fundamental problems with \d and friends: > > > > 1. Some people have a hard time remembering the commands. > > 2. Some people aren't using psql. > > 3. psql keeps breaking across backend versions because the > > needed commands change. > > > > I don't see a lot of value in addressing just one of these problem > > areas, when we could instead do something that addresses all three. > > I agree, at least for #2 and #3. But I just don't understand #1. Anything > is hard to remember when you're just starting to learn it. But it's still > faster to type \? <CR> then \dt than it is to type "show tables". And > "show tables" is hard (relatively speaking) for me to remember because I'm > used to psql's way of doing things, since I mostly use it. >
I'd second this point; I've certainly stumbled over the "show" syntax when trying to get anything other than tables in mysql. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])