Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6
Date: 2008-05-15 00:14:23
Message-ID: 200805150014.m4F0ENV24773@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > If you type 'help' it just repeats the startup banner suggestion:
> >
> > test=> help
> >
> > You are using psql, the command-line interface to PostgreSQL.
> > Type \? for help.
>
> I think we wanted to have more information in 'help', not less. Making
> it just repeat the startup info is not very helpful.

I thought about that, but aren't we just repeating the top of \?. Is
that helpful? Should we just display \?.

I know we decided not to do that, but I am trying to figure out what the
goal if 'help' is? To display the most frequently-used help commands?
Aren't they at the top of \?.

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