| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Friendly help for psql |
| Date: | 2008-01-20 23:41:03 |
| Message-ID: | 14984.1200872463@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Now I have actually thought for a while whether we could get rid of the login
> text altogether. I would support trading that for extended help options.
That makes sense to me. I think people are accustomed to ignoring login
headers because they are usually just copyright boilerplate. I could
see reducing the header to something like
$ psql
Welcome to psql 8.3RC2, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type \? for help, \q to quit.
dbname=#
in the normal case. (The wrong-backend-version warning and perhaps
the SSL encryption notice would remain as possible additions.)
We really shouldn't be designing this on -patches, though.
regards, tom lane
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