On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 20:52 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Jeff Davis wrote: > >> 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 > > well the actual output is just: > > :~$ git difff > git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
Well, the actual output on my machine is what I put in the email. That being said, I don't have much of an opinion, so if you see a problem, then we can forget it. After all, we would need some kind of a prefix anyway to avoid conflicting with actual SQL... maybe "\m"? And that defeats a lot of the purpose. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers