all you guy unix?
under some shells, both * and ? are expanded to matched file names in current directory by shell,
for example FreeBSD's csh.
you should use psql -\? to get help screen, this sucks, 
"?" shouldn't be used as a help screen argument.
Regards,
XuYifeng
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:31 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?
> 
> $ psql -U
> psql: option requires an argument -- U
> Try -? for help.
> $ psql -?
> psql: No match.
> $
> 
> Vince.
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