Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to show

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian dijo:
>
> > Folks, I discussed with Harald a month ago how to improve the psql \?
> > display. I have implemented his idea of mentioning '+' for the options
> > that can use it, and that is in CVS.
> >
> > His other idea is to group the backslash commands into sections, so they
> > are not all one big alphabetical list.
> >
> > How do people like the idea of grouping them? I would do it in psql \?
> > and in the psql manual page.
>
> I think the grouping improves usability in general; however, the list
> you propose below is too long. Maybe having a "table of contents" with
> the groups and allow \? to take an argument?

I will pair down the actual output to look reasonable, and you can
scroll through the \? help anyway, so we should be OK.

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