Re: psql show URL with help

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 6:28 PM Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> As mentioned on
>
>
> https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/looking-at-mysql-8-with-postgresql-goggles-on/
>
> how about this:
>
> => \h analyze
> Command: ANALYZE
> Description: collect statistics about a database
> Syntax:
> ANALYZE [ ( option [, ...] ) ] [ table_and_columns [, ...] ]
> ANALYZE [ VERBOSE ] [ table_and_columns [, ...] ]
>
> where option can be one of:
>
> VERBOSE
> SKIP_LOCKED
>
> and table_and_columns is:
>
> table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ]
>
> URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-analyze.html
> ^^^^
>
>
I've had doing this on my TODO for a few years, but never managed to get
around to it. So strong +1 for the idea :)

> (Won't actually work because the web site isn't serving "12" URLs yet,
> but that's something that could probably be sorted out.)
>

Why not just link to /devel/ when it's a devel version? The 12 docs will be
up alongside the first beta version, so it should be perfectly possible to
have it do that based on information from configure, no?

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