Re: [HACKERS] MySQL-ism help patch for psql

2010-01-25 Thread Alastair "Bell" Turner
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > My problem with this whole idea is that it seems to be very MySQL-specific. > Why aren't we providing help for users migrating from Oracle, Sybase, > Informix, Ingres, DB2, SQLServer and Firebird, to name but a few? And if we > turn all th

Re: [HACKERS] MySQL-ism help patch for psql

2010-01-25 Thread Alastair "Bell" Turner
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 installa