Re: psql: anyone ever notice?

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql: anyone ever notice?
Date: 2000-11-19 20:21:08
Message-ID: 20001119142108.A1018@rice.edu
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It's a shell thing: Vince is running csh (or a derivative thereof)
while Tom (and I) are running some sort of Bourne derived shell.

Vince, try:

psql -\?

Which works more universally.

Ross

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:44:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> > $ psql -?
> > psql: No match.
>
> Odd --- I get the right thing:
>
> $ psql -?
> This is psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
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