Re: improving \dt++ in psql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Filip Rembiałkowski <filip(dot)rembialkowski(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: improving \dt++ in psql
Date: 2014-05-01 13:47:00
Message-ID: 26974.1398952020@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?UTF-8?Q?Filip_Rembia=C5=82kowski?= <filip(dot)rembialkowski(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I was (as a long time Pg user) dead sure that psql really sometimes
> cares about the number of plus signs that you add to meta-command

No, it never has done so AFAIK.

> Can't we have higher levels of "verbosiness"?

I think that for most commands, two levels of verbosity are already
complicating the code in describe.c about as much as it can stand :-(
Things like the infrastructure to mark particular columns as translatable
would really need some significant work if we want to adopt multiple
pluses as a standard design element.

regards, tom lane

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