On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Rok Kralj <rok.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most popular questions on every topic are the simplest ones. Imagine a > parallel universe where this patch is contained in the codebase - I argue > this question about exiting the repl still is the top one, albeit with less > votes. > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017, 11:03 Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Daniel Vérité" <dan...@manitou-mail.org> >> wrote: >> >> When looking at the most popular postgres questions on stackoverflow: >> >> >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql?sort=votes >> >> >> >> the first one (most up-voted) happens to be: >> >> >> >> "How to exit from PostgreSQL command line utility: psql" >> >> >> >> now at 430k views and 1368 upvotes. >> > >> > Wow, that's pretty crazy. I was going to vote against this proposal, >> > but I think I might change my mind. How can we say that this isn't a >> > problem for users given that data? It's evidently not only *a* >> > problem, but arguably the biggest one. >> >> That's an impressive number, indeed. And an argument about potentially >> doing something. >> > Far less concrete, I can tell you this: Over the last 10 years, I've averaged teaching ~ 2 PG classes per quarter to students from every background: Database (you name it), OS admin, developer, consultant, etc... I have the students use pgbench to generate some data, run some queries and pg_dump it. *EVERY* single class has at least one: postgres=# \dt List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+------------------+-------+---------- public | pgbench_accounts | table | postgres public | pgbench_branches | table | postgres public | pgbench_history | table | postgres public | pgbench_tellers | table | postgres (4 rows) postgres=# exit postgres-# pg_dump postgres-# pg_dump postgres-# pg_dump postgres-# pg_dump --help postgres-# ls postgres-# cd postgres-# exit postgres-# quit postgres-# It's not just usability, it's a point of serious frustration for seasoned database people. +1 > -- >> Michael >> >> -- -- Scott Mead Sr. Architect *OpenSCG <http://openscg.com>* http://openscg.com
