Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-04-17T12:45:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Sean Chittenden writes:

> I don't think these should be hacked into the backend/libpq, but I
> think it'd be a huge win to hack in "show *" support into psql for
> MySQL users so they can type:
>
>      SHOW (databases|tables|views|functions|triggers|schemas);

Well, we (will) have the information schema, and if you like you can put
it in the path and write

select * from tables;

etc., which seems just as good.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net