What should we do with the TODO item? Add question mark? Remove? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert Treat writes: > >> One idea I've always thought would be nice would be to make full fledged > >> C functions out of the \ commands and ship them with the database. > > > The psql meta-commands are not a nicely designed set of queries that one > > would encapsulate into a public library interface. They are created for > > interactive use, representing precomposed views of the database that are > > thought to be useful. If the ideas of usefulness change, then the > > commands might change. > > I think that the proposal is to take describe.c more or less > lock-stock-and-barrel out of psql and put it in the backend instead. > It doesn't matter whether the views are orthogonal or useful for > non-interactive purposes; they're defined to do whatever we think > psql should show. > > The question is whether this gives us a useful amount of decoupling of > psql from the backend version. Certainly the describe.c code is the > stuff most subject to breakage across versions, but there are a lot of > other aspects of psql that could still break. One fairly obvious > example of backend-dependent psql code that won't be helped this way is > the tab completion code. > > While I don't have any strong objection to moving the guts of these > queries to the backend, I can't get real excited about it either; > I suspect that psql will still be pretty version-dependent. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
