On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 05:10:49PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > On 03/29/2014 04:49 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:59:36AM -0700, David Johnston wrote: > >>As my belief is that 99% of the uses of \d are for human consumption > >>(because machines should in most cases hit the catalogs directly) then > >>strictly displaying "Includes OIDs" when appropriate has my +1. > >> > >>Uses of \d+ in regression suites will be obvious and quickly fixed and > >>likely account for another 0.9%. > >> > >>psql backslash commands are not machine API contracts and should be adapted > >>for optimal human consumption; thus neutering the argument for maintaining > >>backward compatibility. > >One other issue --- we are adding conditional display of "Replica > >Identity" to psql \d+ in 9.4, so users processing \d+ output are already > >going to have to make adjustments for 9.4. That is another reason I am > >asking about this now. > > > > > I think Tom's suggestion probably has the most support, although > it's not unanimous.
Are you saying most people like "Has OIDs: yes", or the idea of just displaying _a_ line if there are OIDs? Based on default_with_oids, perhaps we should display "With OIDs". I agree it is no unanimous. I am curious how large the majority has to be to change a psql display value. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
