| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Friendly help for psql |
| Date: | 2008-01-20 22:18:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20080120221805.GA24325@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Alvaro suggests:
>
> > To avoid the usage of unadorned "help" (which I don't think is going to
> > ever cause conflicts with a SQL command but perhaps it's better to be
> > prepared), one idea would be to respond with "please execute \help
> > instead", and then \help would emit the verbose output.
>
> Ugh. Why make people do two steps?
That was a side thought anyway, just to avoid the argument of "what will
we do when SQL decrees that HELP is a keyword to do something else".
Does anyone know if Oracle or DB2's command line tools have "help"
commands?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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