On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:12:19PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > 1. \d isn't exactly the most intuitive thing ever > > Seems fairly mnemomic to me (d=describe) and it packs a > *lot* of information into a single letter (see below). > Things that are done often should have short keystrokes, > and not require learning Yet Another Meta-Language. > > > And it's pretty clear that we have been heading into some > > increasingly cryptic bits of fruit salad of > > \dfzb+-meta-bucky-alt-foo > > No arguments there, but that's the nature of the beast. I don't > think it's as bad as is made out, however, as \d covers 99% of > everyday usage and certainly the "show tables" that started > this thread.
It covers 0% of cases where people are not using psql. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
