Re: psql command aliases support

"Bernd Helmle" <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de> writes:

>> Picture a newbie typoing on their \old alias and trying to figure out
>> where all their data is going... Hopefully they weren't too attached to
>> whatever was in their "ldd" file yesterday.
>
> Of course, the patch doesn't work this way. Only complete tokens delivered by
> the parser are substituted, illustrated here with your example:

To be more explicit what I meant was someone doing

#= \alias old select version();
...
#= \oldd
<oops>
#= \old
#= select 'where is all my output going?'
#= select 'what happened to my ldd file?'

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