Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
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 18:28:02
Message-ID: 480A39B2.3090406@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Actually in thinking about this more... I almost thing the default
>> prompt should be:

> Does Win32 have tab completion? I am wondering if we should lose the
> tab and just print:

I don't think it currently does but keep in mind that "most" windows
users are *not* using psql. They are using pgadmin.

>
> help [sql | psql]
>
> in the header, again assuming we want to actually have 'help' so
> something.

I am not opposed to the above but it does break conformance with what we
do now (syntatically).

> I am afraid the phrase "tab completion" is too complex for
> the type of people who need help. :-)

Yeah maybe.

Joshua D. Drake

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