Re: More schema support for psql

Tom Lane has applied this patch.  Thanks.

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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Please ignore the previous psql schema patch. It was merely a warmup.
> This version covers most everything, and includes support for some
> wildcard type matching of schemas and tables, while trying to remain
> true to the pre-schema ways of doing things. As before, schema names
> are always shown along with the table name, to clear up any confusion.
> All references to pg_ tables are now fully qualified, since nothing
> is stopping anyone from now running the command
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> CREATE TABLE public.pg_class (foobar date);
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> When a schema name is not given for things such as "\d foo", psql will do
> its best to find the correct one. Unlike the previous patch, this is more
> centralized so future changes will be easier. Currently, it does
> temporary relations first (in other words, temporary schemas), then
> non-public schemas (in order of last creation date), then public schemas,
> and finally the system schemas. So \d pg_class will still work, and
> "\d mytable" will finally show you your *temporary* "mytable". :)
> You can see your permanent one by specifying the schema name, while
> "\dt mytable" will show you all tables of that name in all schemas.
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> Greg Sabino Mullane  greg@turnstep.com
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