Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> 2014-02-28 19:13 GMT+01:00 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
>> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > for beginners is relative difficult to set psql variable from command
line
>> > and option
>> > -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 is little bit unclean.
>> > and for any user it is not comfortable. So I propose a new psql option
>> > --on-error-stop
>>
>> That saves a whole three characters ... not sure it's really worth it,
>> especially since it will not work on older versions.
>>
>> Also, it's not like this will save people from having to know about the
>> ON_ERROR_STOP variable, because there will still be plenty of contexts
>> where they need to know that (eg, inspecting the setting or changing it
>> mid-session). So I don't buy the argument that this simplifies what
>> beginners need to learn.
>
>
> three chars is not important
>
> important is a placing in --help output
>

Well, then we just have to add more info to --help

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