On 15 July 2010 16:20, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 11:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> > The biggest turn off that most people experience when using PostgreSQL >> > is that psql does not support memorable commands. >> >> > I would like to implement the following commands as SQL, allowing them >> > to be used from any interface. >> >> > SHOW TABLES >> > SHOW COLUMNS >> > SHOW DATABASES >> >> This has been discussed before, and rejected before. Please see >> archives. > > Many years ago. I think it's worth revisiting now in light of the number > of people now joining the PostgreSQL community and the greater > prevalence other ways of doing it. The world has changed, we have not. > > I'm not proposing any change in function, just a simpler syntax to allow > the above information to be available, for newbies. > > Just for the record, I've never ever met anyone that said "Oh, this \d > syntax makes so much sense. I'm a real convert to Postgres now you've > shown me this". The reaction is always the opposite one; always > negative. Which detracts from our efforts elsewhere. > > --
Looks like the last time this was discussed, there wasn't any clear conclusion. Someone created a patch and it's still on the TODO list: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg01845.php Thom -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
