> There is always the biggest evil of all... Putting SHOW / DESCRIBE /
> HELP commands into the backend itself. I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes
> that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining 4 different versions of
> queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql
> backward or forward compatible should go an additional step to assist
> other frontends as well.
Really, is the problem with translation that you might want different
translation in your client psql compared to the server?
Chris