Re: multi-backend psql

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: multi-backend psql
Date: 2003-10-22 01:25:34
Message-ID: 3F95DC8E.3020704@familyhealth.com.au
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> There is always the biggest evil of all... Putting SHOW / DESCRIBE /
> HELP commands into the backend itself. I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes
> that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining 4 different versions of
> queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql
> backward or forward compatible should go an additional step to assist
> other frontends as well.

Really, is the problem with translation that you might want different
translation in your client psql compared to the server?

Chris

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