Re: psql help message contains excessive indentations

On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:29:56 +0900 (JST)
Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> This topic is extracted from [1].
>
> As mentioned there, in psql, running \? displays the following lines.
>
> > \gdesc describe result of query, without executing it
> > \gexec execute query, then execute each value in its result
> > \gset [PREFIX] execute query and store result in psql variables
> > \gx [(OPTIONS)] [FILE] as \g, but forces expanded output mode
> > \q quit psql
> > \watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]
> !> execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times
> !> stop if less than MIN rows are returned
>
> The last two lines definitely have some extra indentation.

Agreed.

> I've attached a patch that fixes this.

I wonder this better to fix this in similar way to other places where the
description has multiple lines., like "\g [(OPTIONS)] [FILE]".

Regards,
Yugo Nagata

>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230830.103356.1909699532104167477.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
>
> regards.
>
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> Kyotaro Horiguchi
> NTT Open Source Software Center

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