Re: psql \l to accept patterns

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 17:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> If we make the postgres database undroppable, unrenamable, and
>> strictly read-only, I will happily support a proposal to consider it a
>> system object.  Until then, it's no more a system object than the
>> public schema - which, you will note, \dn has no compunctions about
>> displaying, even without S.
>
> Good point.  What about the other suggestion about only displaying
> databases by default that you can connect to?

I would tend not to adopt that suggestion, on the grounds that it has
no obvious parallel with anything else psql hides by default.
However, I don't feel quite as strongly about that case.

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