| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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: Updated backslash consistency patch |
| Date: | 2009-01-15 19:44:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20090115194432.GF20296@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:46:08PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I know I already posted this but it seems the most useful behavior is to
> > just change the sort. It doesn't change any behavior in terms of
> > flags/switches so there is nothing new to learn. It just changes the
> > output.
>
> That's better than nothing, but it still doesn't help when I want to do:
>
> psql -c '\df' | grep bool
psql -c '\dfS' |grep bool
> This is not a made-up use case.
Nor is does this long overdue change impose an undue burden on it :)
Cheers,
David.
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