| From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
| Cc: | David Christensen <david(at)endpoint(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql |
| Date: | 2010-01-19 19:43:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1263930230.31869.8.camel@monkey-cat.sm.truviso.com |
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> I'm not convinced that we should start adding syntax helpers like that
> to psql. For now it is an arbitrary subset of MySQL stuff, are we going
> to add oracle/db2/mssql/drizzle/mariadb and whatnot later on?
> Also I can already see people asking "well you already know that this is
> that command - why not emulate it fully?".
Good points. However, it only takes effect in interactive mode, so I
don't see it as a promise to do much. I'll make an analogy to:
$ git difff
git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
Did you mean this?
diff
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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