| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql \d option list overloaded |
| Date: | 2004-01-10 18:28:08 |
| Message-ID: | 878ykf4q13.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Dennis Björklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> writes:
> I would rather have long commands so one can write
>
> \describe_table foo
I would think it would be better to keep everything under a single command and
have a 1-1 correspondence to \d. Ie, just add a long form syntax following the
existing \d. \d would become just an obvious set of abbreviations.
So for example:
\describe table foo => \dt foo
\describe index foo => \di foo
\describe aggregate foo => \da foo
\describe operator foo => \do foo
...
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greg
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