Re: new psql \d command

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>>It just seemed complex to figure out which operators needed parens and
>>>which didn't.
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>>The fact that the first attempt was wrong doesn't improve my faith in
>>that code one bit ;-).  
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It was posted expressively with request for comment/review to locate 
bogus/non-fail-safe assumptions. That operator thing was introduced 
last-minute before feature freeze, coded late at night.

>>I don't want pg_dump invoking it, even as an option.  Someone will get burnt.
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>Yes, even if we get it right now, it might break in the future by a
>change somewhere else, and we may not discover the breakage until it is
>too late.
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Doesn't this apply to any change?

pg_dump can be used as a kind of reverse-engineer tool, that's why 
user-readability can make sense. I wonder when somebody wishes pgAdmin3 
to do that for a complete db (effectively duplicating pg_dump's feature)...

Regards,
Andreas