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Re: [bug-recutils] Deprecate recinf ?


From: Jose E. Marchesi
Subject: Re: [bug-recutils] Deprecate recinf ?
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:14:20 +0200
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    >     Frontends like sqlite3 or psql have separate non-SQL commands for
    >     showing table schemas.  This suggests that an user might not look for
    >     the tool for "[s]electing records" to do this.
    >
    > What do these schemas contain?  Maybe we could inspire some new
    > functionality for recinf in these separated facilities.
    
    sqlite3's .schema shows the CREATE statements, can be limited to tables
    with names matching a pattern.  psql's \d and its many variants can show
    the same data in a different format.  This seems equivalent to showing
    the record descriptor.

Would be nice to support wildcards in the -t option of recinf, something
like:

  $ recinf -t 'System*' tables.rec
  SystemUser 10
  SystemPassword 120
  System...
 
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