Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
Date: 2018-01-16 19:23:28
Message-ID: 20180116192328.76v7afuhbieuedc4@alvherre.pgsql
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Also, I remain of the opinion that we needn't necessarily teach them the
> minimum-keystrokes solution; it's better to teach something that will work
> every time. Maybe ^C is close enough on that score, but I'm not sure.

IMO in the spirit of keeping things simple, it's enough to tell people
to ^C their way out (and why); anything more complicated than that, such
as closing any open quotes, is not catering for the newbie community
that this feature is supposed to help. As Robert said, if you're trying
to exit the terminal, you don't care too much about any string literals
you have open.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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