On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > OK, I have now applied the conditional display of "Replica Identity" > > patch (which is how it was originally coded anyway). The attached patch > > matches Tom's suggestion of displaying the same OID text, just > > conditionally. > > > > Seeing psql \d+ will have a conditional display line in PG 9.4, making > > OIDs conditional seems to make sense. > > Frankly, I think this is all completely wrong-headed. \d+ should > display *everything*. That's what the + means, isn't it? Coming up > with complex rules for which things get shown and which things get > hidden just makes the output harder to understand, without any > compensating benefit.
Well, there are lot of _other_ things we could display about the table that we don't. Are you suggesting we add those too?
I am suggesting it for at least some other things. I'm rather aggrieved that "\d+" without argument shows you the size and the description/comment for every table, but "\d+ foo" does not show you the size and description/comment of the specific table you just asked for.
Not so aggrieved that I wrote and submitted a patch, you might notice; but I'll get to it eventually if no one beats me to it.