Re: psql possible TODO

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.

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