Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>

To: "Dimitri Fontaine" <dfontaine@hi-media.com>

Cc: "David Christensen" <david@endpoint.com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus@hagander.net>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql@j-davis.com>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Date: 2010-01-20T15:30:03Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:

> I'll give my vote to Peter's idea that show tables; should better
> act as if you typed \d.

I guess we don't need a "tables" GUC.  Show all wouldn't include it?
Would we require a semicolon?  Do we support \d-style globs?

Still seems kinda messy.  +1 for help to show the PostgreSQL command
as a guess for what they want to do.  -1 for MySQL emulation.

-Kevin