From e56c26f763ca0caab4fb48078e297bdd6ba04276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@telsasoft.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:51:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow to \dti+ pg_toast.*

This reverts commit 81fc5df83.  Rather than being consistent by hiding toast
tables, instead allow toast tables to be displayed by specifying "S", or their
schema, or by including pg_toast in search_path.
---
 src/bin/psql/describe.c | 24 ++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/describe.c b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
index 8923eee752..b7a8bd4121 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/describe.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
@@ -3762,6 +3762,7 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
 					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_INDEX) " THEN '%s'"
 					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_SEQUENCE) " THEN '%s'"
 					  " WHEN 's' THEN '%s'"
+					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_TOASTVALUE) " THEN '%s'"
 					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_FOREIGN_TABLE) " THEN '%s'"
 					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE) " THEN '%s'"
 					  " WHEN " CppAsString2(RELKIND_PARTITIONED_INDEX) " THEN '%s'"
@@ -3775,6 +3776,7 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
 					  gettext_noop("index"),
 					  gettext_noop("sequence"),
 					  gettext_noop("special"),
+					  gettext_noop("toast table"),
 					  gettext_noop("foreign table"),
 					  gettext_noop("partitioned table"),
 					  gettext_noop("partitioned index"),
@@ -3870,6 +3872,8 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, CppAsString2(RELKIND_SEQUENCE) ",");
 	if (showSystem || pattern)
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "'s',"); /* was RELKIND_SPECIAL */
+	if ((showSystem || pattern) && showTables)
+		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "'t',"); /* toast tables */
 	if (showForeign)
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, CppAsString2(RELKIND_FOREIGN_TABLE) ",");
 
@@ -3878,17 +3882,9 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
 
 	if (!showSystem && !pattern)
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "      AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'\n"
+							 "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n"
 							 "      AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'\n");
 
-	/*
-	 * TOAST objects are suppressed unconditionally.  Since we don't provide
-	 * any way to select RELKIND_TOASTVALUE above, we would never show toast
-	 * tables in any case; it seems a bit confusing to allow their indexes to
-	 * be shown.  Use plain \d if you really need to look at a TOAST
-	 * table/index.
-	 */
-	appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n");
-
 	processSQLNamePattern(pset.db, &buf, pattern, true, false,
 						  "n.nspname", "c.relname", NULL,
 						  "pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)");
@@ -4101,17 +4097,9 @@ listPartitionedTables(const char *reltypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose)
 
 	if (!pattern)
 		appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "      AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'\n"
+							 "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n"
 							 "      AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'\n");
 
-	/*
-	 * TOAST objects are suppressed unconditionally.  Since we don't provide
-	 * any way to select RELKIND_TOASTVALUE above, we would never show toast
-	 * tables in any case; it seems a bit confusing to allow their indexes to
-	 * be shown.  Use plain \d if you really need to look at a TOAST
-	 * table/index.
-	 */
-	appendPQExpBufferStr(&buf, "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n");
-
 	processSQLNamePattern(pset.db, &buf, pattern, true, false,
 						  "n.nspname", "c.relname", NULL,
 						  "pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)");
-- 
2.17.0

