The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5218 Logged by: Russell Wallace Email address: russell.wall...@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1 Operating system: Windows Description: Easy strategic feature requests Details:
(There wasn't a separate form for feature requests, so I'm assuming that like most projects, this one files them together with bugs, please let me know if that is not the case.) Can you make Show Databases, Show Tables and Describe (table) work the way they do in MySQL? This would make things easier for newbies and would also make it easier to port code from MySQL; they would only need to be syntax sugar for the corresponding information schema queries, so it would probably only take a few lines of code, and would improve PostgreSQL's competitive position versus MySQL out of all proportion to the apparent significance of these features. It would be nice if Use (database) could also be made to work, but I'm guessing this would not be just a few lines of code. What would be easy and still useful, however, would be if it could return a specific error message: "you can't do this in Postgres, you always need to supply a database name on connection"; again that would make life easier for newbies, and that matters a lot for competitive advantage. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs