* Alastair Bell Turner <thebellh...@gmail.com> [100125 11:07]: > If this option is designed to help people's transition - basically to > get to them before they've got to most of the manual - having to turn > it on will be pointless. It needs to be active by default. A way to > avoid it being a default option in psql may be setting an alias as > part of package installation so power users couid turn it off by > without having to add a switch to their command lines. It's not going > to have anything to say to experienced psql users anyway so it would > probably not bug anyone enough to turn it off.
I'ld be more comfortable for a line in t the more standard help along the lines of: "For more information on PSQL commands when coming from other databases, see the documentation." And then we can have a full discussion in the docs, psql man page, wherever, where you can actually *describe* the differences between the commands, etc, instead of loosing the useful information because of trying to stuff things into a 1-line message about something that might not have been intended... And then you can have a section on MySQL, SQLite, DB2, Informix, Firebird, Oracle, etc... Basically a section for whoever has an itch. a. -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a slave.
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