Fix materialized-view documentation oversights.

When materialized views were added, psql's \d commands were made to
treat them as a separate object category ... but not everyplace in the
documentation or comments got the memo.

Noted by David Johnston.  Back-patch to 9.3 where matviews came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwb27M3VXRhHErjCpkWwN9eKThbqWb1=trtoXi9_ejqPXQ@mail.gmail.com

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 2e642265df8474d38ed368282f3c46dede6b737f..4449041dcc68eafbbf18c62c379dfb993110349b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -953,7 +953,8 @@ testdb=>
 
         <listitem>
         <para>
-        For each relation (table, view, index, sequence, or foreign table)
+        For each relation (table, view, materialized view, index, sequence,
+        or foreign table)
         or composite type matching the
         <replaceable class="parameter">pattern</replaceable>, show all
         columns, their types, the tablespace (if not the default) and any
@@ -968,8 +969,8 @@ testdb=&gt;
 
         <para>
         For some types of relation, <literal>\d</> shows additional information
-        for each column: column values for sequences, indexed expression for
-        indexes and foreign data wrapper options for foreign tables.
+        for each column: column values for sequences, indexed expressions for
+        indexes, and foreign data wrapper options for foreign tables.
         </para>
 
         <para>
@@ -991,8 +992,9 @@ testdb=&gt;
         <para>
         If <command>\d</command> is used without a
         <replaceable class="parameter">pattern</replaceable> argument, it is
-        equivalent to <command>\dtvsE</command> which will show a list of
-        all visible tables, views, sequences and foreign tables.
+        equivalent to <command>\dtvmsE</command> which will show a list of
+        all visible tables, views, materialized views, sequences and
+        foreign tables.
         This is purely a convenience measure.
         </para>
         </note>

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/describe.c b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
index 8b4fe7096927244cd66217b2be0686108dc23044..7c878c12aa58be319c8aa197ecb5979e3faeca5d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/psql/describe.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
@@ -2726,7 +2726,6 @@ listDbRoleSettings(const char *pattern, const char *pattern2)
  * s - sequences
  * E - foreign table (Note: different from 'f', the relkind value)
  * (any order of the above is fine)
- * If tabtypes is empty, we default to \dtvsE.
  */
 bool
 listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSystem)
@@ -2743,6 +2742,7 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
        printQueryOpt myopt = pset.popt;
        static const bool translate_columns[] = {false, false, true, false, false, false, false};
 
+       /* If tabtypes is empty, we default to \dtvmsE (but see also command.c) */
        if (!(showTables || showIndexes || showViews || showMatViews || showSeq || showForeign))
                showTables = showViews = showMatViews = showSeq = showForeign = true;