Re: Table-driven SHOW (was Re: Are we losing momentum?)
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
From: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-06-02T00:02:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> One thing that is doable with psql's current hard-wired approach, but > doesn't seem easy to do with this solution, is automatic localization > of strings such as column headings. Rod had looked at that a little > in his trial patch to convert psql's \d stuff to table-driven form, > but AFAIR he didn't have a satisfactory answer. I've yet to come up with anything better. Best answer I've come up with is to make the column headings a separate query result set and let the back-end do the translations. -- Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc