Tom Lane wrote:
Alvaro Herrera writes:
\dew show foreign-data wrappers
\des show foreign servers
\deu show user mappings
I'd prefer "external" rather than foreign, because new users could
confuse the latter with "foreign keys".
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Alvaro Herrera writes:
> \dew show foreign-data wrappers
> \des show foreign servers
> \deu show user mappings
Right, but maybe use "external" rather than "foreign" in the help
so that people recognize what the mnemonic is.
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'd suggest "e" for external. "M" for "management" is a pretty
> > useless mnemonic --- what's being managed?
>
> \def, \deu, etc. sound great :)
\dew show foreign-data wrappers
\des show foreign servers
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera writes:
> > Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> >> What about \dM prefix, M standing for MED? It seems free in my
> >> 8.3 psql here.
>
> > So \dMf for foreign servers, \dMu for user mappings, etc? That
> > seems good.
>
> I'd sug
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> What about \dM prefix, M standing for MED? It seems free in my 8.3 psql
>> here.
> So \dMf for foreign servers, \dMu for user mappings, etc? That seems good.
I'd suggest "e" for external. "M" for "management" is a pretty useless
mnemonic ---
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> What about \dM prefix, M standing for MED? It seems free in my 8.3 psql
>> here.
>
> So \dMf for foreign servers, \dMu for user mappings, etc? That seems good.
>
I find the mixed case commands somewhat inconvinient -- too easy to make
typing mistakes, also slow to ente
Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Le 12 déc. 08 à 12:58, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
>> In an idle second I thought, how about F for "foreign", but of course
>> \dF* is already used for full-text search. We could overload the F,
>> but it might be weird.
>>
>> Other ideas?
>
> What about \dM prefix, M
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Hi,
Le 12 déc. 08 à 12:58, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
The current proposed patch allocates the following psql \d commands:
[...]
In an idle second I thought, how about F for "foreign", but of
course \dF* is already used for full-text search. We
The current proposed patch allocates the following psql \d commands:
\dw show foreign-data wrappers
\dr show foreign servers
\dm show user mappings
One might object that this allocates valuable letters for infrequently
used functionality.
In an idle second I thought, how about F f
