bruce wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> > command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> > can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
> >
>
> I have applied
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
>
I have applied this patch (attached) with a
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
So, have you produced a followup patch?
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This has been saved for the 8.4 release:
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME
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> Uh, imagine:
>
> test=> SELECT * from pg_class
> test-> help
>
> Technically 'help' is now an alias for 'pg_class'. Are you suggesting
> supporting 'help' in this usage? People were saying they forget
> semicolons, so this 'help'
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>> No. While the original poster may have been making a separate comparison
>> to MySQL, I can assure you that my impetus for doing this is not being
>> driven by the behavior of the mysql client.
> Then what is the motivation for this? We hav
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now I have actually thought for a while whether we could get rid of the login
> text altogether. I would support trading that for extended help options.
That makes sense to me. I think people are accustomed to ignoring login
headers because they a
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> No. While the original poster may have been making a separate comparison
> to MySQL, I can assure you that my impetus for doing this is not being
> driven by the behavior of the mysql client.
Then what is the motivation for this? We have many sources of help. I have
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Alvaro suggests:
>
> > To avoid the usage of unadorned "help" (which I don't think is going to
> > ever cause conflicts with a SQL command but perhaps it's better to be
> > prepared), one idea would be to respond with "please execute \help
> > instead", and then \help
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd be happy with output that explains briefly the difference between
> psql and SQL commands and refers people to \? and \h. That way we don't
> have to introduce too much change and this can be a forgivable special
> case. (Don't like the "Help me" thing
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 14:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> >> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> >> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> >> can't be bothered
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Tom Lane opined:
> The actual argument for doing this is nothing more nor less than
> "mysql does it like that". 99% of the people who will tell you this
> is user-friendly think so because they used mysql before coming to
> postgres.
No. Whil
Tom Lane wrote:
> It's interesting to note that "help", "\h", and "\?" all provoke the
> same response(s) in mysql. Perhaps a patch that had had more than two
> seconds' design effort in it would do the same in psql; though I'm not
> sure what to do to disambiguate the case with no arguments.
I'
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
>> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
>> can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
> Then surely the help outpu
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
Then surely the help output won't be of use to them either.
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