On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:03:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But these kinds of inconsistent behaviours can be traps for users. It means > > "\c1" and "\c 1" do different things even though "\cpostgres" and \c > > postgres" > > do the same thing. And it means "\c1" might connect to a database named "1" > > today but switch sessions tomorrow. > > The real problem here is trying to overload an existing command name > with too many different meanings. You need to pick some other name > besides \c. > > If you were willing to think of it as "switch session" instead of "connect", > then \S is available ...
Since this command will be getting used very frequently by anyone using concurrent connections interactively, it'd be nice if it was lower-case. It looks like that limits us to j, k, m, n, v, and y. In unix this idea is about jobs, what about using \j? -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
