Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

If this option is designed to help people's transition - basically to
get to them before they've got to most of the manual - having to turn
it on will be pointless. It needs to be active by default. A way to
avoid it being a default option in psql may be setting an alias as
part of package installation so power users couid turn it off by
without having to add a switch to their command lines. It's not going
to have anything to say to experienced psql users anyway so it would
probably not bug anyone enough to turn it off.

Regards

Alastair

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Baron Schwartz <baron(at)xaprb(dot)com>:
>> Hi Cédric,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Cédric Villemain
>> <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> 'psql --help mysql' (or 'psql --tips mysql' ) might be good to call a
>>> special helper : I don't see the point to introduce that kind of
>>> things when it is useless for most of our users.
>>
>> I think it's good to go beyond what's useful for most users.  It's
>> good to help potential users, too.
>
> Absolutly, that's why I suggest to give a simple option to activate
> those helpers.
> We didn't remove extra lines on the psql login to add anothers now.
>
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