On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:20:12PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > Just for the record, I've never ever met anyone that said "Oh, this \d > syntax makes so much sense. I'm a real convert to Postgres now you've > shown me this". The reaction is always the opposite one; always > negative. Which detracts from our efforts elsewhere. > Ah, that's true, we've never met in person ... Let me say that I recall finding the clean separation of what the client implements vs. what the server implements very useful when I was new to postgresql. Anything that doesn't start with a backslash works equally well from psql and from python/psycopg2, for example. If you make SHOW variants that are actually client side \d commands, you break that.
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