| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Harald Armin Massa <ghum(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] Bug #718: request for improvement of /? to |
| Date: | 2002-08-27 21:07:27 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208271705200.5950-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net |
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Bruce Momjian dijo:
> Folks, I discussed with Harald a month ago how to improve the psql \?
> display. I have implemented his idea of mentioning '+' for the options
> that can use it, and that is in CVS.
>
> His other idea is to group the backslash commands into sections, so they
> are not all one big alphabetical list.
>
> How do people like the idea of grouping them? I would do it in psql \?
> and in the psql manual page.
I think the grouping improves usability in general; however, the list
you propose below is too long. Maybe having a "table of contents" with
the groups and allow \? to take an argument?
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Aprende a avergonzarte mas ante ti que ante los demas" (Democrito)
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