--On Dienstag, April 01, 2008 11:39:59 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Do we really want such a thing?
Well, i use aliases everytime and everywhere they got implemented and i
found it quite useful to _extend_ existing behavior (integrating additional
functionality in an easy way)
The space of backslash command names
is so densely populated already that it's hard to imagine creating
aliases without conflicting with existing (or future) command names
I often found existing backslash command sometimes overloaded or simply not
providing information i really need (for example, an easy way to get
information about current locales, encoding and user settings). You simply
can't catch all requirements DBA's and users want within a all-catching
implementation. Using this way, users are able to implement their own
command shortcuts
Overriding existing backslash commands (as my first example shows) is only
an implementation-specific detail which could easily forbidden. However,
defining your own shortcuts for your psql-sessions looks quite useful to
me, like my 2nd example tries to illustrate.
It seems like mostly a recipe for confusion.
So what? This could happen in every shell that supports aliases as well. I
don't get your point...?
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Thanks
Bernd
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