Re: psql :: support for \ev viewname and \sv viewname

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 2015-05-04 11:21 GMT+02:00 Petr Korobeinikov <pkorobeinikov@gmail.com>:
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>> Hackers!
>>
>> I'm proposing to add two new subcommands in psql:
>> 1. \ev viewname - edit view definition with external editor (like \ef for
>> function)
>> 2. \sv viewname - show view definition (like \sf for function, for
>> consistency)
>>
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> +1
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>
+1

During the FISL13 [1] (year 2012) me and other friends (Leonardo César,
Dickson Guedes and Fernando Ike) implemented a very WIP patch [2] to
support the "\ev" subcommand in psql. Unfortunately we didn't go ahead with
this work. :-(

I'll do some reviews.

Regards,


[1] http://softwarelivre.org/fisl13?lang=en
[2]
https://github.com/lhcezar/postgres/commit/b4bfc3b17b4a32850d6035165209b2b82746190a

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