Re: BUG #5143: psql \df doesn't recogize patterns

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Piotr Wolinski wrote:
>> It looks like pqsl \df command doesn't recognize regexp pattern.

> No, it doesn't use regexes, only shell patterns (* and ? only).

The case does work for \d though.  It appears that \df is passing
force_escape = true to processSQLNamePattern.  That's probably a
bug --- it makes sense for \do, but function names aren't special
so there's no reason to prevent people from using regexp patterns.

            regards, tom lane