Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Vérité <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
Date: 2017-12-11 21:13:37
Message-ID: f2dd5041-9e47-e6bf-0e18-83e2e3905fbc@2ndquadrant.com
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On 12/9/17 19:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 12/8/17 10:19, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Meh. I never thought that the "help" business was particularly well
>>> thought out, and this proposal isn't better.
>
>> The perhaps the fix is to revert the "help" thing?
>
> No, my problem with it is that there are lots of contexts where typing
> "help" won't produce anything. Robert's proposal downthread would
> go a long way towards fixing that.

No opinion on that, but if the problem is that people don't know how to
quit psql, then we should just put that information back into the
welcome message and be done with it.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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