Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribi?:
> 
> > But frankly, with a very complex backslash API that is already
> > overloaded, I figured having a consistent 'S' to include system objects
> > was the best we are going to be able to do.  Once this is out in the
> > field we might get new ideas.
> 
> I don't buy this argument.  If we're going to break backwards
> compatibility we should only do so to get a better UI.  Not because "we
> might get new ideas".
> 
> After all this discussion, I'm not sure I understand why is it so
> important that all \ commands behave "consistently".  Since psql is
> primarily a user-convenience tool, it seems that it needs to be usable
> first, consistent second.  In most cases, usable means consistent (think
> having the OK button at the same side of the Cancel button in all dialog
> boxes), but this is one of the other cases, because the requirements for
> some situations are clearly at odds in other situations (or as Peter
> puts it: it is seldom useful to display pg_catalog tables, but it is
> very often useful to display pg_catalog types).

Well, to do this you are going to need 'U' and 'S' modifiers, and then
we have to decide how \df is supposed to behave.

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