Re: psql's \h MOVE

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of dom abr 03 20:37:39 -0400 2011:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> >> I just noticed that \h MOVE is particularly unhelpful:
> >>       alvherre=# \h move
> >>       Command:     MOVE
> >>       Description: position a cursor
> >>       Syntax:
> >>       MOVE [ direction { FROM | IN } ] cursorname
> >
> >> The problem is that it doesn't specify what "direction" is.  The doc
> >> text tells you to look into FETCH for details, but in \h you have to
> >> guess.

> > -1 ... if this annoys you, just duplicate the definition of direction
> > from FETCH.
>
> +1 for duplicating the definition.

Done that way.

(I'd like to have something like \h column_constraint for common stuff
in ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE, but that'll have to wait.)

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