Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> wrote: > So what we'd need first is a series of named queries, which I > think psql provides for. Any solution which only works within psql isn't a solution for a large part of the problem space people are trying to address. One important goal is that if someone spends a day to whip up a GUI query tool (as I did when I first started working in Java), it's easy to get displays like we get from the psql backslash commands (as it was in Sybase, which is what we were using at the time, through sp_help and related stored procedures). While the four DBAs use psql heavily, the twenty-some programmers and the business analysts all use various GUI tools which either tie in to their normal environments (for example, eclipse) or are web based hacks which probably didn't take much more effort than the above-mentioned GUI hack which I used for about ten years. Backslash commands do them no good whatsoever, nor will any solution which requires psql. It would be nice if when I display information about a table or some other database object, I could copy from my psql session, paste it into an email, and they could replicate the behavior in squirrel (or whatever the heck else they happen to be running). -Kevin
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