Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Alvaro suggests: > > > To avoid the usage of unadorned "help" (which I don't think is going to > > ever cause conflicts with a SQL command but perhaps it's better to be > > prepared), one idea would be to respond with "please execute \help > > instead", and then \help would emit the verbose output. > > Ugh. Why make people do two steps?
That was a side thought anyway, just to avoid the argument of "what will we do when SQL decrees that HELP is a keyword to do something else". Does anyone know if Oracle or DB2's command line tools have "help" commands? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
