Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Vérité <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
Date: 2017-12-11 21:16:42
Message-ID: 22186.1513027002@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/9/17 19:28, Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, my problem with it is that there are lots of contexts where typing
>> "help" won't produce anything. Robert's proposal downthread would
>> go a long way towards fixing that.

> No opinion on that, but if the problem is that people don't know how to
> quit psql, then we should just put that information back into the
> welcome message and be done with it.

I don't think people read the welcome message, or at least they
immediately forget it.

regards, tom lane

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