On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:05:24AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 6/28/13 2:27 PM, David Fetter wrote: > >> You can run \! man from within psql, > > And if you're on Windows, you're Sadly Out of Luck with that. Is > > there an equivalent we could #ifdef in for that platform? > > If you are using psql on Windows extensively, you probably have one of > mingw, cygwin, or pgadmin handy, all of which can get you to the > documentation. I don't think it's worth devising a mechanism for those > not covered by this.
With deepest respect, failing to provide documentation to users on our widest-deployed platform seems pretty hostile to me. There was an earlier suggestion that we provide URLs, which seems like a decent way forward as those environments so locked down as to disallow outbound HTTP are pretty rare, and non-networked computers are even more rare. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
