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Re: [HACKERS] Re: Failure to show descriptions in \df command

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-11-13T18:19:19Z

> You can turn the descriptions on by typing \set description on (or \set
> description foo, or whatever, as long as it's something), for example, in
> your ~/.psqlrc (or in your .psqlrc-7.0.0 if you don't want to interfere
> with the current version).

OK. I noticed that the existance of an .psqlrc file causes an extra
newline to be printed on startup before the first prompt.  Is that
intentional?

> 
> The reason for having descriptions off by default was that in a number of
> views (I recall functions and operators), they don't fit on the screen
> very nicely. On the other hand, the \dd command always shows descriptions,
> because it's sort of the built-in manual, but it doesn't show anything
> else (argument types, etc.).

Got it.  Yes, much clearer for \df and \do.  I noticed that using \set
description on and then using \dT generates an error of:
	
	test=> \set description on
	test=> \dT
	ERROR:  Relation 'p' does not exist


Also, the \set commands don't seem to complain about bad commands:

	test=> \set figgle
	test=> 

Is that intentional?

> 
> Read the fine (SGML) manual ;)
> 

That was part of my problem.  I hadn't figured out how to generate html
from the sgml ref stuff.  I just spent some time and figured out I have
to issue the 'make' command from the upper sgml directory because there
is no Makefile in the sgml/ref directory.  I can view them fine now.

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