From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: psql possible TODO |
Date: | 2006-12-05 22:50:47 |
Message-ID: | 1165359047.31648.91.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:45 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > > control-R isn't real useful for 17 queries that are exactly the same
> > > > except for 3 different join clauses. It also isn't useful when you don't
> > > > know exactly what query you are looking for.
> > >
> > > ... but, somehow, you know exactly what command number it has?
> >
> > Well, presumably \s would give you the numbers. "history" does on bash anyway.
> >
> > I use it on bash all the time: I do "history | grep something" and then
> > !<number of command I want>.
> >
> > I don't think we can do the "| grep" part, but it's useful anyway.
>
> OK, now at least I understand how it would be used, and could be
> explained easily in the documentation --- do \s, then \! 99, or maybe \#
> 99. I don't like making \! do shells and pull SQL commands from history.
Yeah the # was the next logical thing. Would we have to escape it?
\#12... hmmm
#12
I prefer #12
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drkae
>
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