Re: psql \? help display

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql \? help display
Date: 2008-05-13 15:22:10
Message-ID: 20080513152210.GF6966@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I promised to review our psql \? output to see if I could improve it,
> particularly the "General" section at the top. Below are the results.
>
> Are the new sections ideal, and in the best ordering? Should \copyright
> be kept in "General" at the top? Should \? be listed?

Why do we have a section named "Copy, Large Objects"? It would seem to
make sense to put the LO stuff on its own section.

> I also pulled up some descriptive text that caused the options to have
> blank lines between them.

It was like that to keep the alignment of descriptions. It's a
judgement call of course, but personally I think the other way was
better.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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