Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > If what the user wanted was to be using MySQL, he is out of luck
> > anyway.
> 
> That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about having a nice
> client tool for those people having to do both MySQL and PostgreSQL
> support, or new to PostgreSQL and comming from MySQL.
> 
> I'll give my vote to Peter's idea that show tables; should better act as
> if you typed \d.
> 
> I don't see what the gain is to refuse being nice to MySQL newcomers
> when someone actually does the work. If the USE keyword is one we want
> to keep free for our own usage, let just skip that compat option.

I think the problem is that many other MySQL commands will not work or
be supported, and if you give the person the desired output _and_ a
suggestion to use \d, the suggests is easily overlooked.

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