Re: psql: Add setting to make '+' on \d implicit

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote:
> I asked on IRC if there was any way to make \d behave like \d+ by default, and davidfetter said no but suggest it
here.
> 
> endpoint_david pointed out you could use \d- to get the old behavior if you wanted to temporarily negate the
setting.
> 
> So the proposal would be:
> 
> \d+ does as it has always done, no change
> \d- (new) always behaves like 'old' \d
> \d  acts as 'old' \d or as \d+, depending on the setting of 'verbose_describe', set via \pset.
> 
> Default setting of verbose_describe would presumably yield 'old' behavior.
> 
> Motivation is that I like to see comments when they exist.  Probably useful for other reasons too.

Hmm, what about all the other + variants? Would this setting affect
them? I'd suggest perhaps it should.

Ross
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