* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > >> But I may be trying to push water up a hill, so, I can live with > >> adding \dfU and keeping \df as-was. > > > BTW, why the capital? \dfu is *considerably* easier to type than \dfU. > > Because (1) its counterpart S is capitalized by historical tradition, > and (2) we are going to apply this to all the variants of \d so we'd > have a conflict with \du. (Even if we special-cased our way out of the > actual conflict, there would certainly be user confusion there.) > > Also (3) you are not actually going to use this as much as you think > you are, so saving a shift keypress is not the be-all and end-all.
Well, and (4), you could always 'remap' it, if you will:
-- obviously with \\dfU if it gets added
postgres*=> \set df '\\df'
postgres*=> :df
List of functions
[...]
I use ':r' for 'rollback;' all the time (not my idea, someone on IRC),
but a : tends to be as easy for me as \. <shrug> I wouldn't complain
about a more generic aliasing ability in psql, mind you.
Thanks,
Stephen
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