On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:12, Philip Warner wrote:
At 05:13 PM 9/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Seems like a fine idea to me.
Ditto.
\Dsomething works though.)
Any objections out there?
My only complaint here is being forced to use the 'shift' key on commands
that will be common.
At 01:25 AM 10/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Let's
get a bit realistic on the ease-of-typing arguments here.
It's a fair cop, but don't forget the memory argument as well - I did say
I
was happy with \dtab providing prompts, and DESCRIBE is a little more
portable memorable than
Alvaro Herrera writes:
Would it work to make \d tab-completable in a way that showed both the
commands that are available and the objects they describe? e.g.
\dtab would show something like
\dt [tables] \ds [sequences] \dv [views] ...
That won't work. The actual completion and the view of
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
We could do DESCRIBE commands as well. Also, what happened to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA proposal? Wasn't Peter E doing something with that?
What happened to it?
Ooops. Yeah, let's get this in. Where should I put it?
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
We could do DESCRIBE commands as well. Also, what happened to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA proposal? Wasn't Peter E doing something with that?
What happened to it?
Ooops. Yeah, let's get this in. Where should I put it?
... and that was already proposed for show schemas (namespaces).
I'm inclined to think it's time to bite the bullet and go over to
words rather than single characters to identify the \d target
(viz, \dschema, \dcast, etc, presumably with unique abbreviations
being allowed, as well as special
Tom Lane kirjutas T, 10.12.2002 kell 02:05:
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Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
\dc - list conversions [PATTERN]
\dC - list casts
What are we going to use for collations?
\dn
Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not use \D for long ids ?
Seems like a fine idea to me. (I had actually started to think of
\ssomething for show, but was just observing that that would
create conflicts against existing commands, when your message arrived.
\Dsomething works though.)
At 05:13 PM 9/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Seems like a fine idea to me.
Ditto.
\Dsomething works though.)
Any objections out there?
My only complaint here is being forced to use the 'shift' key on commands
that will be common. I would prefer any other lower case char: \b, \j, \k ,
\m,
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
We could do DESCRIBE commands as well. Also, what happened to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA proposal? Wasn't Peter E doing something with that?
What happened to it?
The issue here is what do we do with the existing \d[istvS] behavior
(for instance, \dsit means
At 01:22 PM 9/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
Hmmm...I'm not certain that the \d commands really NEED to have a logical
link to the actual thing you're listing.
This is the perspective a person with good memory, unlike me. In find it
useful to be able to derive commands from
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:55:51PM +1100, Philip Warner wrote:
At 01:22 PM 9/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
Hmmm...I'm not certain that the \d commands really NEED to have a logical
link to the actual thing you're listing.
This is the perspective a person with good memory,
\Dsomething works though.)
Any objections out there?
My only complaint here is being forced to use the 'shift' key on commands
that will be common.
\dd perhaps?
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At 01:55 AM 10/12/2002 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
\dtab would show something like
\dt [tables]\ds [sequences] \dv [views] ...
(the way it's shown now shows what completions are available, but not
what they mean. Also, both \d and \D should be shown in any case)
This would be OK, but I'd
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This would be OK, but I'd be very happy with DESCRIBE, especially if
tab-completion meant I could type 'DESCtabTABtabname' instead of
'DESCRIBE TABLE name'.
That's quicker than backslashshiftDunshifttspacename ?
I don't want to sound like I've got
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