Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

On Mon, January 15, 2018 11:10 am, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> I've discovered one thing about this design that is not so good, which
>>> is that if you open a single, double, or dollar quote, then the
>>> instructions that are provided under that design do not work:
>>
>> I was kind of imagining that we could make the hint text vary depending
>> on the parsing state. Maybe that's too hard to get to --- but if the
>> prompt-creating code knows what it is, perhaps this can too.
>
> prompt_status does seem to be available in psql's MainLoop(), so I
> think that could be done, but the problem is that I don't know exactly
> what message would be useful to print when we're in a "in quotes"
> state. If I had a good message text for that state, I might just
> choose to use it always rather than multiplying the number of
> messages.
>
> More broadly, I think what is needed here is less C-fu than
> English-fu. If we come up with something good, we can make it print
> that thing.

Maybe that's a Linux-specific thing, but I always use Ctrl-D to exit a
console, and this works with psql, too, even when in the middle of a query
typed.

So maybe this could be suggested?

Best wishes,

Tels