Re: [HACKERS] psql: Add setting to make '+' on \d implicit

2010-04-24 Thread Terry Brown
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:28:38 -0400 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: If we were to do something like that, it would certainly have to affect every \d variant that has a + option. Which is probably not a very good idea --- in many cases that's a very expensive/verbose option. I can't get

Re: [HACKERS] psql: Add setting to make '+' on \d implicit

2010-04-24 Thread Terry Brown
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:34:45 -0700 Steve Atkins st...@blighty.com wrote: Maybe a configuration variable along the lines of 'always_show_comments' would be a better design. Or more generally an ability to set aliases via .psqlrc similar to \set, maybe? \alias \d- = \d \alias \d =

[HACKERS] psql: Add setting to make '+' on \d implicit

2010-04-23 Thread Terry Brown
I asked on IRC if there was any way to make \d behave like \d+ by default, and davidfetter said no but suggest it here. endpoint_david pointed out you could use \d- to get the old behavior if you wanted to temporarily negate the setting. So the proposal would be: \d+ does as it has always