Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
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Msg-id f2dd5041-9e47-e6bf-0e18-83e2e3905fbc@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit
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On 12/9/17 19:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.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/
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