Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > I feel pretty strongly that making the pattern search against a
> > different list of stuff than what the same command would display
> > without the pattern is confusing and a bad idea.  It's a bad idea
> > regardless of which particular backslash-sequence we're talking about.
> 
> Well, I'm perfectly happy to drop that stipulation and just go with
> 
>     \df        -- all
>     \dfS        -- system only
>     \dfU        -- non-system only
> 
> but are we willing to change \d and \dt to work that way too?
> Or should we leave them inconsistent?
> 

I would prefer them consistent.

Joshua D. Drake



>             regards, tom lane
> 
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