Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to show

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
Cc: Harald Armin Massa <ghum(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to show
Date: 2002-08-27 21:12:31
Message-ID: 200208272112.g7RLCVu19430@candle.pha.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian dijo:
>
> > Folks, I discussed with Harald a month ago how to improve the psql \?
> > display. I have implemented his idea of mentioning '+' for the options
> > that can use it, and that is in CVS.
> >
> > His other idea is to group the backslash commands into sections, so they
> > are not all one big alphabetical list.
> >
> > How do people like the idea of grouping them? I would do it in psql \?
> > and in the psql manual page.
>
> I think the grouping improves usability in general; however, the list
> you propose below is too long. Maybe having a "table of contents" with
> the groups and allow \? to take an argument?

I will pair down the actual output to look reasonable, and you can
scroll through the \? help anyway, so we should be OK.

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