Re: FWD: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

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?
        regards, tom lane