Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
