| From: | Lew <noone(at)lewscanon(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: failure and silence of SQL commands |
| Date: | 2011-04-28 20:33:19 |
| Message-ID: | ipcitn$gno$1@news.albasani.net |
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On 04/28/2011 01:21 PM, John Payne wrote:
> Thank you both very much for your help; that was the problem. Stupid of me
> (the answer came to me in the shower this morning as well). If anyone out
> there in the developer community is listening, may I respectfully suggest that
> PSQL’s behavior --- to return nothing when Enter is hit – is pathological. It
> would be so simple to return a message like ”Waiting for the end of the
> statement…” and it would save novices like me a lot of very unhappy hours.
Terrible idea. Then you'd be peppered with stupid messages while you're
composing a statement. It doesn't make sense to alter the system for one user
who refuses to learn it correctly.
--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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