Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-19 18:12:28
Message-ID: 200804191812.m3JICSm25880@momjian.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > How about:
> >
> > \? for psql help, \h for SQL help
> > \g or ';' to execute a query
> > \q to quit
> >
>
> This would be more in line with our current process sure. However
> something a little more radical might be cool :)
>
> help
> returns:
> \g to execute query
> help psql for psql help
> help sql for sql help
>
> Of course we would keep the pre-existing key sequences for those of us
> that have done this for the last decade :)

Yes, we could do that, but in our last discussion of help we didn't want
'help' to do anything but print pointers to the correct commands. We
can change, of course. ;-)

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