Re: [PATCHES] psql \i handling ~ in specified file name

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Zach Irmen wrote: refers to following item on TODO Have psql '\i ~/tabtab' actually load files it displays from home dir This expansion should also apply to all other commands that take file names. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if

Re: [PATCHES] Quoting of psql \d output

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: I think if we change it here we will also have to revisit hundreds of places in the backend, such as this one: regression=# select * from public.bar; ERROR: relation public.bar does not exist and indeed the whole question of what we are using quotes for in

[PATCHES] Some Documentation Changes

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Browne
1. In keeping with the recent discussion that there should be more said about views, stored procedures, and triggers, in the tutorial, I have added a bit of verbiage to that end. 2. Some formatting changes to the datetime discussion, as well as addition of a citation of a relevant book on

Re: [PATCHES] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/ oc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

2004-01-04 Thread Ron Mayer
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: This is a horrid, horrid idea. Datestyle is already a complete mess ... Please revert that part of the patch and instead invent a new GUC variable that's specifically for interval formatting. OK, I have backed out the patch. [...]

Re: [PATCHES] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/ oc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would formatting functions for intervals such as... to_iso8601basic_char(interval) -- return ISO-8601 basic fmt interval to_iso8601basic_char(timestamp) -- return ISO-8601 basic fmt date/time would be better than a new GUC variable? I could see