| From: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Hunaid Sohail <hunaidpgml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maiquel Grassi <grassi(at)hotmail(dot)com(dot)br>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jim Jones <jim(dot)jones(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih(at)amazon(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> |
| Subject: | Re: Psql meta-command conninfo+ |
| Date: | 2025-01-14 09:50:51 |
| Message-ID: | CAEZATCW3Y8jOD=-gXrNh984q23J42p0_CXieU5KYqTFvRDE0ig@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 08:51, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Jan-14, Hunaid Sohail wrote:
>
> > I've tried the approach and attached the output. Does this look good?
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure I like the third column particularly; it's noisy to
> have on all the time. I'd leave that for \conninfo++ maybe :-)
>
Yeah, I thought perhaps it might provide some useful extra
information, however...
> _If_ we keep the descriptions, I suggest that the majority need to be
> very short, say three words tops, with exceptions allowed for egregious
> cases (if any). We should get rid of filler words such as "Displays
> the" or "Indicates whether". For instance, I'd turn "Indicates if
> GSSAPI authentication was used for the connection" into "GSSAPI
> authenticated?" which conveys exactly the same; the ending "?" matches
> things like "Key?" in \d of an index or the "Default?" column in \dc.
> It's a boolean, so people know how to read it.
>
By the time the filler words have been stripped out, the description
isn't really adding any useful information that can't be guessed from
the parameter name and value. So I tend to agree that it should be
left out (for now at least).
Regards,
Dean
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