Re: get rid of psql welcome message

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: get rid of psql welcome message
Date: 2008-04-19 17:59:09
Message-ID: 20080419175909.GB6035@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I realize that, but my point is that when they type 'help', they don't
> get help; they just get details on the help options, and then they get
> help.

So let's improve "help", For instance with an introductory text on the
difference of psql commands and SQL commands.

> How about:
>
> \? for psql help, \h for SQL help
> \g or ';' to execute a query
> \q to quit

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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