> I'm not convinced that we should start adding syntax helpers like that 
> to psql. For now it is an arbitrary subset of MySQL stuff, are we going 
> to add oracle/db2/mssql/drizzle/mariadb and whatnot later on?
> Also I can already see people asking "well you already know that this is 
> that command - why not emulate it fully?".

Good points. However, it only takes effect in interactive mode, so I
don't see it as a promise to do much. I'll make an analogy to:

  $ git difff
  git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

  Did you mean this?
          diff

Regards,
        Jeff Davis


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