Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > The basic goal of the patch was to make 'S' consistent for all \d
> > backslash commands, and we had a lot of discussion about it, and many
> > people asked for it (I can't find my user functions).
>
> I think this falls in the category of "be careful what you wish for,
> you might get it". It is now blindingly obvious that the folks asking
> for that had not actually lived with the behavior for any period of
> time.
>
> Personally I think we should just revert the patch and go back to the
> behavior we've had for umpteen years. However, if you cannot bear to
> leave well enough alone, how about *reversing* the sense --- that is,
> default behavior is to show everything and there is an extra character
> to omit system objects?
I got several emails thanking me for applying the patch, so there is
clearly user-demand for 'S'. I think _we_ as developers look at the
system stuff a lot but in user-land, they would rather not see it by
default.
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