Re: whats the deal with -u ?

I wrote:
> I don't remember why it's deprecated.

Some trawling of the CVS logs shows that the deprecation notice was
added by Peter here:

2000-01-14 17:18 petere

* doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml, src/bin/psql/command.c,
src/bin/psql/command.h, src/bin/psql/common.c,
src/bin/psql/common.h, src/bin/psql/copy.c, src/bin/psql/copy.h,
src/bin/psql/describe.c, src/bin/psql/describe.h,
src/bin/psql/help.c, src/bin/psql/help.h, src/bin/psql/input.c,
src/bin/psql/input.h, src/bin/psql/large_obj.c,
src/bin/psql/large_obj.h, src/bin/psql/mainloop.c,
src/bin/psql/mainloop.h, src/bin/psql/prompt.c,
src/bin/psql/prompt.h, src/bin/psql/settings.h,
src/bin/psql/startup.c: Fixed psql variables vs array syntax, as
well as minor psql enhancements

but I failed to find any discussion about the reason in the archives.
Peter?

regards, tom lane