On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 16:00, Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Also consider some practical concerns with the command structure you > describe: Tab completion of commands wouldn't work anymore, unless you > supply custom tab completion setups. The direct association between a > command and its man page would be broken. Shell scripting becomes more > challenging: Instead of writing common things like "if which > pg_waldump; then" you'd need some custom code, to be determined. These > are all solvable, but just a sum of slight annoyances, for no real benefit. > I don’t think the man page concern is justified. We could have a “help” subcommand, just like git; “git help add” is (to a casual observer; probably not precisely) the same as “man git-add”.
