Re: improve the help message about psql -F

From: Jov <amutu(at)amutu(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: improve the help message about psql -F
Date: 2014-01-19 05:00:13
Message-ID: CADyrUxNAjo2xrohHdRV7NC=yyWbyGThgo_J9gGyg8e9V4YDQVg@mail.gmail.com
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any commnet?

Jov
blog: http:amutu.com/blog <http://amutu.com/blog>

2014/1/17 Jov <amutu(at)amutu(dot)com>

> in the offical doc,-F say:
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>> Use separator as the field separator for unaligned output.
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> but in the psql --help,-F say:
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>> set field separator (default: "|")
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> if user don't read the offical doc carefully,he can use:
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> psql -F , -c 'select ...'
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> But can't get what he want.
> It is a bad user Experience.
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> I make a patch change the help message for -F to:
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>> set field separator for unaligned output (default: "|")
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>
> patch for head attached.
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> Jov
> blog: http:amutu.com/blog <http://amutu.com/blog>
>

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