Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
Date: 2017-02-01 21:38:59
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaCf3g+FfO=aRrq9B_znkiHGvcVqSg7AweYxqA9E0NWMA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2017-02-01 12:59:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:25:25PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Make psql's \set display variables in alphabetical order.
>>
>> > This is a substantial usability improvement which nevertheless is hard
>> > to imagine changes things that scripts relied on. I think it's worth
>> > back-patching.
>>
>> I'm not that excited about it personally, but I agree it would be unlikely
>> to break anything. Other votes?
>
> -0.5 - I see very little reason to backpatch this over dozes of other
> changes.

I'll vote -1. I don't think this is a bug fix.

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Robert Haas
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