Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

On 12 December 2017 at 23:28, Avinash Kumar <avinash(dot)vallarapu(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> It takes a few hours to learn PostgreSQL and 1 second to remember, how to
> quit from psql.
> Surprised to see the depth of discussion on this.
>
> It takes sometime for a person to explore or know about PostgreSQL and
> install it.
> Likewise, it takes him some more time to understand that there exists a
> "psql" to connect to it.
> He knows about psql because he searched it somewhere. Just a psql --help
> (anybody uses help), should help me know much more about psql.
> I think many people doesn't find it difficult to quit using \q.
>
> I think its good to talk about or help with more features that helps a
> production database.
>
>
It's easy to dismiss usability concerns, but new users are what keeps a
community healthy. Users who go "WTF is this @#$@" and bail aren't
necessarily the ones you want to lose; sometimes they're just busy or are
evaluating a few things at once. Early UX matters.

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