Re: [Fwd: Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop]

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop]
Date: 2014-08-28 15:20:35
Message-ID: 20140828152035.GA14361@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-08-28 14:04:27 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 28/08/14 13:20, Andres Freund wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Stuff I wondered about:
> >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables?
>
> -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho

I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long
commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with
an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc.

But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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