Re: psql's \h MOVE

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>> I just noticed that \h MOVE is particularly unhelpful:
>>       alvherre=# \h move
>>       Command:     MOVE
>>       Description: position a cursor
>>       Syntax:
>>       MOVE [ direction { FROM | IN } ] cursorname
>
>> The problem is that it doesn't specify what "direction" is.  The doc
>> text tells you to look into FETCH for details, but in \h you have to
>> guess.
>
>> We could fix this by including a note about fetch in the <synopsis>,
>> so that it'd look like this:
>
>>       alvherre=# \h move
>>       Command:     MOVE
>>       Description: position a cursor
>>       Syntax:
>>       MOVE [ direction [ FROM | IN ] ] cursor_name
>
>>       See FETCH for details on direction
>
> -1 ... if this annoys you, just duplicate the definition of direction
> from FETCH.

+1 for duplicating the definition.

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