Everaldo Canuto wrote: > Some of us unfortunately have to work with multiple databases like Oracle or > MySQL. > Their respective clients mysql and sqlplus uses "quit" or "exit" to exit sql > client. > > Oracle's sqlplus uses "quit" or "exit" and MySQL client can be exited using > "quit" and "exit" but for compatibility with psql, it also supports "\q" and > "\quit". > > Postgres psql already support "\q" and "\quit" but I think that could be cool > if it supports "exit" and "quit", talking to friends I saw that I am the only > that sometimes try to exit psql with "exit'. > The attached patch implements this way to exit psql.
I am -1 on that, because I think that it is not good to break the simple rule that everything that is a psql command starts with a backslash. It might reach out to newcomers, but it will confuse people who know psql. And frankly, anybody who has used sqlplus is used to suffering anyway. Yours, Laurenz Albe
