Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:06:53PM +0200, Alastair Bell Turner wrote: > <..> > > without having to add a switch to their command lines. It's not going > > to have anything to say to experienced psql users anyway so it would > > probably not bug anyone enough to turn it off. > > I would so use this feature going the other way: fire up comfortable > psql and see what mysql command I need to type ... Having it in the > interface (behind \help [mysql|oracle|firebird|mssql|..] seems reasonable > to me, given how much info we already have in \help. I find the basic > BNF help for SQL syntax still useful reminder, and know to go to the > actual docs when there's not enough there. So a quick mapping of > most-needed commands, and a pointer to the docs for the full > ramifications and subtle differences seems to fit the existing > documentation module.
It would be interesting to implement \help mysql, and then have commands like SHOW TABLE trigger a message suggesting they do \help mysql. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
