| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SHOW TABLES |
| Date: | 2010-07-16 15:40:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1279294808.1735.37394.camel@ebony |
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On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:38 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I assume SHOW TABLES would only be useful for interactive terminal
> sesssions, not for application code (which should use
> information_schema), so what non-psql interactive terminal programs
> are there?
My original thought was around the newbie experience: they connect to
PostgreSQL and then.... nothing. No sensible commands work, typing
"help" doesn't work, nor does typing "quit". Few simple commands they've
learnt elsewhere work either.
We need a way to respond sensibly to common user input.
"Terminal program" is the bit of thinking that is askew there. The
question is "what other non-psql interactive programs are there"?
Lots.
There are many tools that can access Postgres. Some are libpq programs,
though there are command line versions in every environment: java,
python, etc..
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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