Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, David Christensen <david(at)endpoint(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql
Date: 2010-01-20 15:19:38
Message-ID: 201001201519.o0KFJcf26122@momjian.us
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Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > If what the user wanted was to be using MySQL, he is out of luck
> > anyway.
>
> That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about having a nice
> client tool for those people having to do both MySQL and PostgreSQL
> support, or new to PostgreSQL and comming from MySQL.
>
> I'll give my vote to Peter's idea that show tables; should better act as
> if you typed \d.
>
> I don't see what the gain is to refuse being nice to MySQL newcomers
> when someone actually does the work. If the USE keyword is one we want
> to keep free for our own usage, let just skip that compat option.

I think the problem is that many other MySQL commands will not work or
be supported, and if you give the person the desired output _and_ a
suggestion to use \d, the suggests is easily overlooked.

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