Comment by threeseed
10 hours ago
The command line experience is old school style i.e. to show tables.
\c database
\dt
Versus:
use database
show tables
10 hours ago
The command line experience is old school style i.e. to show tables.
\c database
\dt
Versus:
use database
show tables
I started with MySQL in 2006 for my personal projects, but what first won me over to psql was those commands.
Today I use CLIs like usql to interact with MySQL and SQLite so I can continue to use those commands.
At first glance they may be less obvious, but they are significantly more discoverable. \? Just shows you all of them. In MySQL it always feels like I need to Google it.
> At first glance they may be less obvious, but they are significantly more discoverable. \? Just shows you all of them. In MySQL it always feels like I need to Google it.
In MySQL either `?` or `help` or `\?` will show you the help...
I assume this is really what it comes down to. If psql added those verbose-but-descriptive commands a whole bunch of people comfortable with mysql would be a lot happier using postgres.
That's psql.
It’s also faster to type.
Not after you have to google, "What's the equivalent of `show tables` in postgres?", because the psql command names are completely arbitrary.
Which you need to do exactly once.
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