Re: psql doesn't show tables duplicated in multiple schemas

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: wstrzalka(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql doesn't show tables duplicated in multiple schemas
Date: 2021-08-03 04:35:02
Message-ID: 20210803.133502.2007206546027287879.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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At Mon, 2 Aug 2021 12:57:17 +0200, Wojciech Strzalka <wstrzalka(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> I understand why but still - that was very surprising after ~20 years of
> using Postgres :)

I agree that it is astonishing but I think it's just a matter of
choice and I found that it is surely written in the documentaion.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/app-psql.html

> Note
> If \d is used without a pattern argument, it is equivalent to \dtvmsE
> which will show a list of all visible tables, views, materialized
~~~~~~~
> views, sequences and foreign tables. This is purely a convenience
> measure.

However, I don't think the "visible" works as expected for ordinary
users. (It could be confused with "accessible", aside from the
unnoticeability of the word itself...)

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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