| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch |
| Date: | 2009-01-16 01:25:52 |
| Message-ID: | 16821.1232069152@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> gah, I find that to be terrible. If we wanted to compromise, I'd
> rather have \df do what it does today, to keep backwards-compat and
> not confuse users, and \dfU to do what I want 99% of the time.
This seems to me to be the compromise most likely to dissatisfy everyone
the least ...
> On a seperate (kind of) note, I'd really like to be able to say "I want
> this function visible everywhere" like a system function.
Huh? System functions don't have that property either.
You could do that today with a quick hack on your default search path,
though: set search_path = global, pg_catalog, public or something like
that (... and be *very* careful about what you put in schema "global").
regards, tom lane
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