ble in psql.
The issue of alignment is non-trivial if we wish to retain the
nice-to-have property that if you copy-paste psql session
in an editor, the prompting can generally be filtered out
with a simple column-cut.
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the line
number and proper alignment, so the above session could end up displayed
like this:
postgres=> select 2+2
2-> help
3-> quit
4-> exit
That way, the more lines are typed, the more it becomes obvious that
you're in a multi-line statement. Plus numberin
mplement "show tablename;"? Well, this one is
impossible because SHOW is already a SQL command that does
something else, so that's already the end of that road to
compatibility.
Personally I'm +1 on accepting the additional "exit" and "quit"
as synonyms f
