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> Uh, imagine: > > test=> SELECT * from pg_class > test-> help > > Technically 'help' is now an alias for 'pg_class'. Are you suggesting > supporting 'help' in this usage? People were saying they forget > semicolons, so this 'help' usage is quite possible. We don't want to > hear "Why doesn't 'help' work sometimes?" I don't think we have to worry about supporting that case. We only support it when the command begins with "help". No ambiguity with SQL to worry about. Don't forget that ctrl-c resets a query as well, so the above situation is not as dire as it may appear to the uninitiated user. > Supporting 'help' in psql seems like a very slippery slope. We are very > tight in defining when an entry is psql and when it is SQL and this > weakens that. Does not seem slippery to me, seems a simple, one-time fix that replaces a syntax error with a helpful message. As the instigator of this discussion, I can assure you I have no plans for anything other than "help". It's simple, standard, and points you to anything else you may need or want to do. > What would be interesting would be if the _server_ could send back some > message about "Use the help facility of your client application" but it > would have to have a trailing semicolon; unlikely. :-( Now THAT would be a bad mangling of SQL and non-SQL. We'll pretend you didn't suggest that one. :) - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200801281451 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFHnjJgvJuQZxSWSsgRA8mMAJ4jzlrwYDVguUNt2yAwMTXMvV1S3QCg+SaF n8ybxb/KbGBxW9aouZGpzaY= =igJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
