2014-02-28 22:52 GMT+01:00 Erik Rijkers <e...@xs4all.nl>: > On Fri, February 28, 2014 22:38, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > >>> Well, then we just have to add more info to --help > > > >> +1 for at least doing that. I found it annoying just the other day not > >> to find it in plsql's --help output, in a moment of brain fade when I > >> forgot how to spell it. So it's not just beginners who can benefit, it's > >> people like me whose memory occasionally goes awry. > > > > No objection in principle, but what are we talking about exactly? > > Adding some new backslash command that lists all the variables that have > > special meanings? I'm not sure that the main --help output is the place > > for this, because that only covers psql's command line switches (and > > is plenty long enough already). > > > > regards, tom lane > > Perhaps this compromise: > > -v, --set=, --variable=NAME=VALUE > set psql variable NAME to VALUE e.g.: -v > ON_ERROR_STOP=1 >
can be > > this would not lengthen and not broaden the output of psql --help > > > >