Re: psql possible TODO

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql possible TODO
Date: 2006-12-05 22:42:31
Message-ID: 20061205224231.GE18593@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > control-R isn't real useful for 17 queries that are exactly the same
> > except for 3 different join clauses. It also isn't useful when you don't
> > know exactly what query you are looking for.
>
> ... but, somehow, you know exactly what command number it has?

Well, presumably \s would give you the numbers. "history" does on bash anyway.

I use it on bash all the time: I do "history | grep something" and then
!<number of command I want>.

I don't think we can do the "| grep" part, but it's useful anyway.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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