--On 23. April 2010 14:34:45 -0700 Steve Atkins st...@blighty.com wrote:
Or more generally an ability to set aliases via .psqlrc similar to \set,
maybe?
\alias \d- = \d
\alias \d = \d+
You mean something like this?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg5.php
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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
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 =
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
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote:
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
Ross J. Reedstrom reeds...@rice.edu writes:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote:
So the proposal would be:
\d+ does as it has always done, no change
\d- (new) always behaves like 'old' \d
\d acts as 'old' \d or as \d+, depending on the setting of
On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Ross J. Reedstrom reeds...@rice.edu writes:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote:
So the proposal would be:
\d+ does as it has always done, no change
\d- (new) always behaves like 'old' \d
\d acts as 'old' \d or as
