From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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To: | Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit |
Date: | 2017-12-08 06:00:19 |
Message-ID: | 1512712819.2390.11.camel@cybertec.at |
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Everaldo Canuto wrote:
> Some of us unfortunately have to work with multiple databases like Oracle or MySQL.
> Their respective clients mysql and sqlplus uses "quit" or "exit" to exit sql client.
>
> Oracle's sqlplus uses "quit" or "exit" and MySQL client can be exited using
> "quit" and "exit" but for compatibility with psql, it also supports "\q" and "\quit".
>
> Postgres psql already support "\q" and "\quit" but I think that could be cool
> if it supports "exit" and "quit", talking to friends I saw that I am the only
> that sometimes try to exit psql with "exit'.
> The attached patch implements this way to exit psql.
I am -1 on that, because I think that it is not good to break the simple rule
that everything that is a psql command starts with a backslash.
It might reach out to newcomers, but it will confuse people who know psql.
And frankly, anybody who has used sqlplus is used to suffering anyway.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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