Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6
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Msg-id 87d4nnqjfi.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> I know we decided not to do that, but I am trying to figure out what the
>> goal if 'help' is?  To display the most frequently-used help commands?
>> Aren't they at the top of \?.
>
> The purpose of 'help' is to provide useful help.  If it only says "see \?"
> then it's just redirecting you somewhere else, which isn't useful.

Haven't been following this thread. Has the idea of making "help" just a
synonym for \? not come up? Or has it been rejected? It seems simplest.


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