On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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.
I'm not going to get into a big definitional wrangle here. "Has available" (as in you could install software if you wanted to) is a pretty long distance from "actually handy," which URLs are a bit closer to. > > 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? Apparently start URL works for some large class of URLs. More details here: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/open-files-urls.html 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