Recently \watch got the following help message.
> \watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]
> execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times
> stop if less than MIN rows are returned
The "m=MIN" can be a bit misleading. It may look like it's about
interval or counts, but it actually refers to the row number, which is
not spelled out in the line.
Would it make sense to change it to MINROWS? There's enough room in
the line for that change and the doc already uses min_rows.
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/help.c b/src/bin/psql/help.c
index 38c165a627..8c8616205d 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/help.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/help.c
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ slashUsage(unsigned short int pager)
HELP0(" \\gset [PREFIX] execute query and store result in psql variables\n");
HELP0(" \\gx [(OPTIONS)] [FILE] as \\g, but forces expanded output mode\n");
HELP0(" \\q quit psql\n");
- HELP0(" \\watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]\n");
+ HELP0(" \\watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MINROWS]\n");
HELP0(" execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times\n");
- HELP0(" stop if less than MIN rows are returned\n");
+ HELP0(" stop if less than MINROWS rows are returned\n");
HELP0("\n");
HELP0("Help\n");
