Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

Hello,

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Vérité" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
wrote:

> Implementing it is easy, but it might be a hard sell for the project
> because it creates a precedent.
>

We already have "help" (without slash) so I don't think it is a precedent.

> The next question in that list is "PostgreSQL DESCRIBE TABLE", so
> why not implement "desc tablename;" as a synonym for
> "\d tablename"?
>

I must be honest to you, I create this small patch to see how is contribute
do Postgres and to check how is reception on Postgres community.
That said, DESC[RIBE] is on my list for next patches but it is not a
synonym to \d.

DESC[RIBE] must be a SQL command, very useful when you are not running
psql. But let us discuss this on another thread ;-)

> The question after that is "Show tables in PostgreSQL", so
> why not implement "show tablename;"? Well, this one is
> impossible because SHOW is already a SQL command that does
> something else, so that's already the end of that road to
> compatibility.
>

Didn't know about SHOW command. Are TABLES a reserved word?

Regards.