On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reeds...@rice.edu> writes: >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Terry Brown wrote: >>> 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. > >> Hmm, what about all the other + variants? Would this setting affect >> them? I'd suggest perhaps it should. > > If we were to do something like that, it would certainly have to affect > every \d variant that has a + option. Which is probably not a very good > idea --- in many cases that's a very expensive/verbose option. I can't > get excited about this proposal, personally. > > What the OP actually seemed to care about was database object comments. > I could see somebody who relied heavily on comments wanting his comments > to be included in all display commands, even without the + option. > Maybe a configuration variable along the lines of 'always_show_comments' > would be a better design.
Or more generally an ability to set aliases via .psqlrc similar to \set, maybe? \alias "\d-" = "\d" \alias "\d" = "\d+" Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
