Re: psql \d+ and oid display

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > OK, I have now applied the conditional display of "Replica Identity"
> > > patch (which is how it was originally coded anyway). The attached
> patch
> > > matches Tom's suggestion of displaying the same OID text, just
> > > conditionally.
> > >
> > > Seeing psql \d+ will have a conditional display line in PG 9.4, making
> > > OIDs conditional seems to make sense.
> >
> > Frankly, I think this is all completely wrong-headed. \d+ should
> > display *everything*. That's what the + means, isn't it? Coming up
> > with complex rules for which things get shown and which things get
> > hidden just makes the output harder to understand, without any
> > compensating benefit.
>
> Well, there are lot of _other_ things we could display about the table
> that we don't. Are you suggesting we add those too?

I am suggesting it for at least some other things. I'm rather aggrieved
that "\d+" without argument shows you the size and the description/comment
for every table, but "\d+ foo" does not show you the size and
description/comment of the specific table you just asked for.

Not so aggrieved that I wrote and submitted a patch, you might notice; but
I'll get to it eventually if no one beats me to it.

Cheers,

Jeff