On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:34:37PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> As a side note, there's a typo in \?:
>
> \c[onnect] [DBNAME|- [USER]]
>
> Note the | where there should be a ].
Eh? Looks right to me; the | indicates an alternate, i.e., that
you can use either DBNAME or -. I often use - to co
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Yes I've seen the same frustration from users, I think the banner should
> > > say
> > > something along the lines of "psql cli
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
Yes I've seen the same frustration from users, I think the banner should say
something along the lines of "psql client version foo connected to server bar
version sfoo"
I second this, I think that something like "psl client version
8.03 connected
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes I've seen the same frustration from users, I think the banner should
> > say
> > something along the lines of "psql client version foo connected to server
> > bar
> > version sfoo"
>
> Th
Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes I've seen the same frustration from users, I think the banner should say
> something along the lines of "psql client version foo connected to server bar
> version sfoo"
That seems overly verbose, particularly in the normal case where the
versio
On Thursday 01 September 2005 08:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome
> banner. I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server
> version. Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to
> make inference
Peter,
> A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome
> banner. I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server
> version. Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to
> make inferences that they would otherwise not bother about. Has an
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:30:34PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome banner.
> I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server version.
> Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to make
>
A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome banner.
I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server version.
Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to make
inferences that they would otherwise not bother about. Has anyone else
