From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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 23:10:49 |
Message-ID: | 200612052310.kB5NAn106940@momjian.us |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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
Well, it is something that controls psql, so the backslash really makes
sense.
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