Re: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?

[Peter Eisentraut]

Vince Vielhaber writes:

 $ psql -U
 psql: option requires an argument -- U
 Try -? for help.
 $ psql -?
 psql: No match.
 $

It advertises '--help' now.  (And yes, '--help' works everywhere.)

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Re: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?

[Tom Lane]

Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 $ psql -?
 psql: No match.

Odd --- I get the right thing:

$ psql -?
This is psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Usage:
  psql [options] [dbname [username]]

Options:
  -a  Echo all input from script
  -A  Unaligned table output mode (-P format=unaligned)
[etc etc]

Something different about long-option handling on your platform, maybe?
What is your platform, anyway?

regards, tom lane

Re: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?

[Dominic J. Eidson]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

 Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  $ psql -?
  psql: No match.
 
 Odd --- I get the right thing:
 
 $ psql -?
 This is psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

It has something to do with certain shell's expansion of ? - for the
longest time I'd have to do psql -\? to get it to work.


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Re: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

It's a shell thing: Vince is running csh (or a derivative thereof)
while Tom (and I) are running some sort of  Bourne derived shell.

Vince, try:

psql -\?

Which works more universally.

Ross

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:44:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
 Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  $ psql -?
  psql: No match.
 
 Odd --- I get the right thing:
 
 $ psql -?
 This is psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
 
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Re: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?

[xuyifeng]

all you guy unix?
under some shells, both * and ? are expanded to matched file names in current 
directory by shell,
for example FreeBSD's csh.

you should use psql -\? to get help screen, this sucks, 
"?" shouldn't be used as a help screen argument.

Regards,
XuYifeng

- Original Message - 
From: Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:31 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] psql: anyone ever notice?


 
 $ psql -U
 psql: option requires an argument -- U
 Try -? for help.
 $ psql -?
 psql: No match.
 $
 
 Vince.
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