Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I feel pretty strongly that making the pattern search against a
>> different list of stuff than what the same command would display
>> without the pattern is confusing and a bad idea.  It's a bad idea
>> regardless of which particular backslash-sequence we're talking about.
> 
> Well, I'm perfectly happy to drop that stipulation and just go with
> 
>     \df        -- all
>     \dfS        -- system only
>     \dfU        -- non-system only
> 
> but are we willing to change \d and \dt to work that way too?
> Or should we leave them inconsistent?

I think changing \dt would confuse the heck out of people.  Far more 
than changing \df to be consistent with \dt would be.

So my votes, in order of preference, are:

1) make \df consistent with \dt
2) leave them inconsistent

--Josh