Re: add \dpS to psql

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: add \dpS to psql
Date: 2023-01-09 17:45:39
Message-ID: 20230109174539.GA1112921@nathanxps13
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 11:18:59AM +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> It might be true that temp tables aren't usually interesting from a
> permissions point of view, but it's not hard to imagine situations
> where interesting things do happen. It's also probably the case that
> most users won't have many temp tables, so I don't think including
> them by default will be particularly intrusive.
>
> Also, from a user perspective, I think it would be something of a POLA
> violation for \dp[S] and \dt[S] to include different sets of tables,
> though I appreciate that we do that now. There's nothing in the docs
> to indicate that that's the case.

Agreed.

> Anyway, I've pushed the v2 patch as-is. If anyone feels strongly
> enough that we should change its behaviour for temp tables, then we
> can still discuss that.

Thanks!

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Nathan Bossart
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