On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On tis, 2010-01-19 at 16:00 -0600, David Christensen wrote: >> > Currently, a session will look like the following: >> > >> > machack:machack:5485=# show tables; >> > See: >> > \d >> > or \? for general help with psql commands >> > machack:machack:5485=# >> >> I think if you make "show tables" and the others actually execute \d and >> then possibly print a notice about what the "better" command would have >> been, you actually *help* people do their work instead of appearing to >> be a smartass -- "See, we took the time to research what you want to do, >> and here is why it's wrong." >> >> Moreover, the backslash is really hard to type on some keyboards, so I'd >> expect significant uptake for people to use the SHOW variants as their >> primary method. > > I disagree. No one has complained that we are being a "smartass" by > reporting this for "help" in psql: > > You are using psql, the command-line interface to PostgreSQL. > Type: \copyright for distribution terms > \h for help with SQL commands > \? for help with psql commands > \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query > \q to quit > > while to be really helpful we would display \?. After extensive > discussion we chose against that because we wanted to steer people to > the proper commands, rather than have them consider 'help' as a valid > command. The same is true for the MySQL commands --- we just want to > point people to the proper commands.
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