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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>, Harald Armin Massa <ghum(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to show
Date: 2002-12-13 20:40:32
Message-ID: 200212132040.gBDKeW703507@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > OK, I have created an "I/O Redirection" section and moved \i and \o
> > into there. I didn't think \s (history) belonged there. I also
> > couldn't see \copy as I/O redirection. (It is a shotgun wedding,
> > though.)
>
> How about just "Input/Output" without any redirection?

Good idea.

> And also put the things in each group in some sensible order.

Oh, you like them alphabetical within sections --- done.

> And I think that a two-space indent would look better. Possibly because
> it is consistent with other help output.

Done.

>
> Take a look at psql --help. It has much of this already done.

New output attached. Change applied.

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