| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: \d+ for long view definitions? |
| Date: | 2009-09-01 18:17:31 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070909011117x166004a1j65c2dcea8709c849@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/31/09 1:13 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I guess my premise is that if I use \d, I'm primarily interested in the
>> column names and types. The view definition is secondary. If the view
>> definition is a single line or uses a single table, it's interesting
>> because it might describe something about the schema design, but if it's
>> 20 lines it's an implementation detail.
>
> I agree with Peter here.
I think we should always or never show the view definition, not sometimes.
And I also agree with Tom's point that we should fix the pager. The
way that it works now is really annoying.
...Robert
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