On Monday 21 December 2009 6:17:22 pm Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Klaver <aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Monday 21 December 2009 5:17:49 pm Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> Ahh, right, it's about visibility. Hadn't caught that part. > > > > I think that is where the biggest misunderstanding lies. > > On looking at the page some more, it strikes me that part of the problem > is that the info is buried at the bottom of the "Patterns" section, > below some extremely geeky details that few people would care about. > People probably stop reading before they even see it, let alone figure > out what "visible" means. > > I wonder how we can rearrange this? I think the reasoning was that the > second through fourth paras explain the pattern language, and the > explanation about * and *.* doesn't make sense until you've read that. > We could just swap the fourth and fifth paras but that would break up > the pattern language definition in a strange way. Any ideas? > > regards, tom lane Fifth para become second as follows : Whenever the pattern parameter is omitted completely, the \d commands display all objects that are visible in the current schema search path — this is equivalent to using the pattern *. To see all objects in the database, use the pattern *.*. For more detailed explanation see below. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
