Hello, On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Vérité" <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> Implementing it is easy, but it might be a hard sell for the project > because it creates a precedent. > We already have "help" (without slash) so I don't think it is a precedent. > The next question in that list is "PostgreSQL DESCRIBE TABLE", so > why not implement "desc tablename;" as a synonym for > "\d tablename"? > I must be honest to you, I create this small patch to see how is contribute do Postgres and to check how is reception on Postgres community. That said, DESC[RIBE] is on my list for next patches but it is not a synonym to \d. DESC[RIBE] must be a SQL command, very useful when you are not running psql. But let us discuss this on another thread ;-) > The question after that is "Show tables in PostgreSQL", so > why not implement "show tablename;"? Well, this one is > impossible because SHOW is already a SQL command that does > something else, so that's already the end of that road to > compatibility. > Didn't know about SHOW command. Are TABLES a reserved word? Regards.
