Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1

Peter,

what I miss on pgsql is ability to keep commands I issued in history file
as bash does for example. Say, ~/.pgsqlhistory
Of course, not to save passwords.

Regards,
Oleg

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:12:29 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
>
> Here's the summary of my wheelings and dealings. No code yet, but trust
> me, you don't want it.
>
> * Changed one file into many
> * Changed few functions into countless
> * Added GNU long option support (added test to configure.in,
> definition to config.h.in)
> [ This feature is under protest by Tom L. ]
> * Extra arguments are now taken as dbname and username
> (it used to fail if you have more than one extra)
> * Added switch -V (--version) to display client and server version and
> warn about possible incompatibilities
> * Added \copyright command. Changed welcome message accordingly.
> * Added a few long slash commands equivalent to short ones (e.g.,
> \list = \l)
> * Rewrote backslash command parser from scratch. Can now quote
> arguments. (Only doublequotes. Single quotes to come.)
> * Added message output channel as alternative to query output and
> stderr. Might be useful to funnel output in scripts.
> * SQL command help is now generated directly from the SGML sources at
> build time.
> [ Must have perl. Might be a problem on Windows. Perhaps package
> preparsed version as well. ]
> * \connect now asks for password when appropriate
> * Added switch -U allowing you to specify username on cmd line
> * -? prints out default username, host, port, etc. in help screen
> * PSQLRC env variable can override the name of your startup script
> * PSQL_EDITOR can set your prefered editor for \e and \E (overriding
> EDITOR and VISUAL)
> * Fixed flat tire on bike ...
> * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
> aborted program)
> * Custom prompts in tcsh style
> (No, I am not partial to tcsh. In fact, I don't even use it. But
> using % as escape character rather than \ saves a lot of headaches.)
> * Increased abstraction of input routines.
> [ Cheers to Matthew D.! ]
> * Started to clean up \copy. Can now specify delimiters and "with
> oids". Still needs some work though, especially regarding binary and
> quoting/escaping. I'll probably end up writing a better strtok()
> before this is all over.
>
> More in a week . . .
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut - peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
> http://yi.org/peter-e
>
>
> ************
>

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