On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:03:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > But these kinds of inconsistent behaviours can be traps for users. It means
> > "\c1" and "\c 1" do different things even though "\cpostgres" and \c postgres"
> > do the same thing. And it means "\c1" might connect to a database named "1"
> > today but switch sessions tomorrow.
>
> The real problem here is trying to overload an existing command name
> with too many different meanings. You need to pick some other name
> besides \c.
>
> If you were willing to think of it as "switch session" instead of "connect",
> then \S is available ...
Since this command will be getting used very frequently by anyone using
concurrent connections interactively, it'd be nice if it was lower-case.
It looks like that limits us to j, k, m, n, v, and y. In unix this idea
is about jobs, what about using \j?
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