Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
Date: 2017-02-01 21:56:31
Message-ID: 20170201215631.GB12944@fetter.org
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:38:59PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > On 2017-02-01 12:59:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> >> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> >> Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
> >>
> >> > This is a substantial usability improvement which nevertheless is hard
> >> > to imagine changes things that scripts relied on. I think it's worth
> >> > back-patching.
> >>
> >> I'm not that excited about it personally, but I agree it would be unlikely
> >> to break anything. Other votes?
> >
> > -0.5 - I see very little reason to backpatch this over dozes of other
> > changes.
>
> I'll vote -1. I don't think this is a bug fix.

I withdraw my suggestion.

Best,
David.
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