On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 18:35, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 17:38 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> Is there an actual common use-case for having these commands available
>> for *non-psql* interfaces?
>
> There are many interfaces out there and people writing new ones
> everyday. We just wrote an interface for Android, for example.
>
> It is arguably *more* important to do this from non-psql interfaces.
>
> There should be one command to "display a list of tables" and it needs
> to be easily guessable for those who have forgotten.
The downside is that you are then limited to what can be returned as a
resultset. A "\d table" in psql returns a hell of a lot more than
that. So do we keep two separate formats for this? Or do we remove the
current, useful, output format in favor of a much worse formt just to
support more clients?
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