On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:46:27PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:57 PM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > I would prefer if it errored if the datname didn't match the current > > database. > > After all, it would've helped me to avoid making a confusing problem report. > > How would you have felt if it had said something like: > > error: argument to \d should be of the form > [schema-name-pattern.]relation-name-pattern > > Would that have been better or worse for you than accepting a third > part of the pattern as a database name if and only if it matched the > current database name exactly?
I don't normally type \d a.b.c. I think I copied it out of a log message and pasted it, and didn't even really know or expect it to work without removing the datname prefix. After it worked, I noticed a short while later when using the pg14 client that it had stopped working. It seems unfortunate if names from log messages qualified with datname were now rejected. Like this one: | automatic analyze of table "ts.child.cdrs_2021_10_12"... -- Justin
