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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>, Harald Armin Massa <ghum(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to show
Date: 2002-12-11 23:08:23
Message-ID: 200212112308.gBBN8NR05589@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, new output attached. Does the HTML section look silly now with only
> > two entries?
>
> Yeah. I think it should be folded into "Formatting", since it really is
> only an output-formatting option.
>
> I have a problem with the "Query Buffer" section, also: I don't think
> \i, \o, etc have anything to do with the query buffer. Could we split
> this section into "Query Buffer" (\g \r \e \p \w) and "I/O Redirection"
> (\i \o \s), or something like that? Perhaps \copy could go into the
> redirection section too, rather than suffering a shotgun wedding with
> the large-object commands.

OK, I have created an "I/O Redirection" section and moved \i and \o
into there. I didn't think \s (history) belonged there. I also
couldn't see \copy as I/O redirection. (It is a shotgun wedding,
though.)

I have moved Formatting above the "shotgun wedding."

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