Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for psql wildcarding behavior w/schemas

2002-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my thoughts on the matter: > More than one period throws an error (something pleasant, mentioning > that we do not quite support cross-database queries yet). The just-committed implementation doesn't throw an error, but silently discards

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for psql wildcarding behavior w/schemas

2002-08-09 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's my thoughts on the matter: More than one period throws an error (something pleasant, mentioning that we do not quite support cross-database queries yet). I'll assume we are switching to the "explicit wildcard" system for this. (I think th

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for psql wildcarding behavior w/schemas

2002-08-08 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane writes: >> 1. A wildcardable pattern must consist of either "namepattern" or >> "namepattern.namepattern". > Regarding the use of quotes: Would > \d "foo.bar" > show the table "foo.bar", whereas > \d "foo"."bar" > would show the table