On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:33:34PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Amit Langote > <langote_amit...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > > I posted a patch upthread which makes \d hide partitions > > (relispartition = true relations) and include them if the newly > > proposed '!' modifier is specified. The '+' modifier is being > > used to show additional detail of relations chosen to be listed at > > all, so it seemed like a bad idea to extend its meaning to also > > dictate whether partitions are to be listed. > > +1. That'd be a mess.
With utmost respect, it's less messy than adding '!' to the already way too random and mysterious syntax of psql's \ commands. What should '\det!' mean? What about '\dT!'? > > Actually, if \d had shown RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE tables as of > > Type "partitioned table", we wouldn't need a separate flag for > > marking a table as having partitions. > > I think that is false. Whether something is partitioned and whether > it is a partition are independent concerns. So whatever we land on needs to mention partition_of and has_partitions. Is that latter just its immediate partitions? Recursion all the way down? Somewhere in between? Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david(dot)fetter(at)gmail(dot)com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers