Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I can't shake the feeling that this is about a couple
> of PostgreSQL hackers (yourself included) not wanting to type \dfS or
> \dfA or something to get the behavior they currently get with \df. If
> that's the case, come off it, because there's lots of evidence on this
> thread (and in all likelihood elsewhere) that this behavior is not
> what end-users want.

As was made clear at the beginning of the thread, that's what they
*think* they want, without any experience with a system that actually
behaves that way. And yes I do believe I know better, both from knowing
how the system works and from actual experience with the ill-considered
patch that's now in HEAD. I'm willing to provide a "U" modifier but
I think it will be a serious error to make that the default behavior.

regards, tom lane