Re: psql \d option list overloaded

Thomas Swan wrote:

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>The \d* commands work from psql but not from anywhere else.    Try
>getting the information from a PHP script by sending a "\dS" query.   It
>doesn't work.   If the same queries were stored in the backend and
>referenced by psql and also could be referenced by other scripts, this
>would be a good thing and keep the work centralized.   If the queries
>were in the backend, the psql users could keep the \dS command but it
>would call an internal function or execute a queried stored in the
>system tables.
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I just independently had this idea, so I like it :-)
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cheers

andrew