Make \dt \di and friends more consistent about the treatment of

TOAST tables and indexes; to wit, never show either.  (You can
examine them with plain \d if you're really so inclined.)

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/describe.c b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
index 220c3c4770a571863b6c43834627046681aaddb6..c78bd6f39eeb22bd71b9739ccd64b15241485c17 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/psql/describe.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/describe.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v 1.205 2009/04/02 17:38:26 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c,v 1.206 2009/04/04 00:41:11 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 
@@ -2029,8 +2029,15 @@ listTables(const char *tabtypes, const char *pattern, bool verbose, bool showSys
 
        if (!showSystem && !pattern)
                appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, "      AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'\n"
-                                                               "      AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'\n"
-                                                               "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n");
+                                                               "      AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'\n");
+
+       /*
+        * TOAST objects are suppressed unconditionally.  Since we don't provide
+        * any way to select relkind 't' above, we would never show toast tables
+        * in any case; it seems a bit confusing to allow their indexes to be
+        * shown. Use plain \d if you really need to look at a TOAST table/index.
+        */
+       appendPQExpBuffer(&buf, "      AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'\n");
 
        processSQLNamePattern(pset.db, &buf, pattern, true, false,
                                                  "n.nspname", "c.relname", NULL,