Re: Viewing non-system objects in psql

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Viewing non-system objects in psql
Date: 2005-06-17 02:31:49
Message-ID: 20050617023149.GB10795@fetter.org
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:54:29PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> I recently submitted a patch that makes all the database objects
> behave in the same way as far as the backslash psql commands.
> Currently, tables work like this: \dt lists all non-system tables in
> your path, while \dtS shows only the system tables. The idea is to
> expand that functionality to other database objects, e.g. functions.
> Currently, \df will show you a list of *all* functions, including
> the system ones. Since there are currently over 1500 system
> functions, this limits its usefullness. The patch standardizes
> everything on the way we do tables and indexes - the user ones are
> shown by default, and you add a capital "S" if you really want to
> see the system ones. So the patch would have \df show all your
> functions, \dD show all your domains, \doS shows the system
> operators, etc.

+1 :)

Cheers,
D
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