| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql's \d commands --- end of the line for |
| Date: | 2002-12-10 06:25:53 |
| Message-ID: | 23439.1039501553@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> This would be OK, but I'd be very happy with DESCRIBE, especially if
> tab-completion meant I could type 'DESC<tab>TAB<tab><name>' instead of
> 'DESCRIBE TABLE <name>'.
That's quicker than <backslash><shift><D><unshift><t><space><name> ?
I don't want to sound like I've got some kind of religious objection
to DESCRIBE, but it was just a couple of hours ago that someone was
objecting to "\D" because it'd require touching the shift key. Let's
get a bit realistic on the ease-of-typing arguments here.
regards, tom lane
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