Jeff Davis wrote:
I'm not convinced that we should start adding syntax helpers like that
to psql. For now it is an arbitrary subset of MySQL stuff, are we going
to add oracle/db2/mssql/drizzle/mariadb and whatnot later on?
Also I can already see people asking "well you already know that this is
that command - why not emulate it fully?".
Good points. However, it only takes effect in interactive mode, so I
don't see it as a promise to do much. I'll make an analogy to:
$ git difff
git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
Did you mean this?
diff
well the actual output is just:
:~$ git difff
git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
which is more or less the same as:
postgres=# \mysql
Invalid command \mysql. Try \? for help.
so I don't really see why we need to add some random second guessing of
what the user actually wanted (and if he is indeed a mysql refugee he
can always use "help" and go on from there).
Stefan
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