On 7/1/13 10:20 AM, David Fetter wrote: > 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.
As I argue above, I don't think this is the widest-deployed platform. The actual platform in use is either mingw, which has man, or click-and-drool, which has pgadmin, both of which provide the documentation. > 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. Does clicking on links in cmd.exe do anything useful? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers