Re: psql: anyone ever notice?

From: Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>
To: xuyifeng <jamexu(at)telekbird(dot)com(dot)cn>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql: anyone ever notice?
Date: 2000-11-20 02:56:06
Message-ID: 20001119215606.L29322@reptiles.org
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:47:32AM +0800, xuyifeng wrote:
> "?" shouldn't be used as a help screen argument.

generally, code doesn't explicitly look for a '?'.

rather, the code notes that the character is not mapped to any argument,
and prints out a usage statement.

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