On 16/07/10 21:32, Simon Riggs wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:52 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
I have nothing against SHOW TABLES
...but SHOW wins, based on numbers of people expecting that
I'm not sure I buy that, but even if it's true, it doesn't seem fair to
do a favor to one group of users, leaving the rest stranded and excluded
forever. Even if SHOW TABLES has a bigger mind-share than the others,
surely the others are not negligible either.
, but if we're going to cater to people migrating from MySQL, I
feel we should cater to people migrating from other products too. But
surely we're not going to implement 10 different syntaxes for the same
thing! We could, however, give a hint in the syntax error in all those
cases.
That's a very sensible suggestion, we should give a hint for all common
commands SHOW, LIST, etc., even though we pick just one to implement.
I'm suggesting that we should just add the hint for all of those and be
done with it.
doing people a favor by introducing them to the backslash
commands
That's a sentence I never thought to see written down
:-). They're not that bad IMHO. \d is short, which is nice. \d and \df
are the commands I routinely use and remember, for anything more
advanced I have to resort to \h. The SHOW TABLES command wouldn't do
more than that anyway.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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