Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Vérité <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
Date: 2017-12-09 04:03:18
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSG33jy7TTiZE6USY8L_D-2wdvL=qpRYHUcCGSPD38iEQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Daniel Vérité" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> wrote:
>> When looking at the most popular postgres questions on stackoverflow:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql?sort=votes
>>
>> the first one (most up-voted) happens to be:
>>
>> "How to exit from PostgreSQL command line utility: psql"
>>
>> now at 430k views and 1368 upvotes.
>
> Wow, that's pretty crazy. I was going to vote against this proposal,
> but I think I might change my mind. How can we say that this isn't a
> problem for users given that data? It's evidently not only *a*
> problem, but arguably the biggest one.

That's an impressive number, indeed. And an argument about potentially
doing something.
--
Michael

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