Re: [HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane writes: >> How do you mean "where"? > I was more wondering where in the source tree to put and how to install > it. I would suggest the following: I have a file information_schema.sql > which contains the commands to create the information

Re: [HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > How do you mean "where"? The spec says it's gotta be called > information_schema, no? What's left to decide? I was more wondering where in the source tree to put and how to install it. I would suggest the following: I have a file information_schema.sql which contains the co

Re: [HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: >> We could do DESCRIBE commands as well. Also, what happened to the >> INFORMATION_SCHEMA proposal? Wasn't Peter E doing something with that? >> What happened to it? > Ooops. Yeah, let's get this in. Where should I

Re: [HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: > We could do DESCRIBE commands as well. Also, what happened to the > INFORMATION_SCHEMA proposal? Wasn't Peter E doing something with that? > What happened to it? Ooops. Yeah, let's get this in. Where should I put it? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-09 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> ... and that was already proposed for "show schemas" (namespaces). > > I'm inclined to think it's time to bite the bullet and go over to > words rather than single characters to identify the \d target > (viz, "\dschema", "\dcast", etc, presumably with unique abbreviations > being allowed, as well

[HACKERS] psql's \d commands --- end of the line for 1-character identifiers?

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
[ moved to hackers from pgsql-patches ] "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter wrote: >> Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: >>> \dc - list conversions [PATTERN] >>> \dC - list casts >> >> What are we going to use for collations? > \dn Is the only letter left in collations t