On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:05:24AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 6/28/13 2:27 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> >> You can run \! man from within psql,
> > And if you're on Windows, you're Sadly Out of Luck with that. Is
> > there an equivalent we could #ifdef in for that platform?
>
> If you are using psql on Windows extensively, you probably have one of
> mingw, cygwin, or pgadmin handy, all of which can get you to the
> documentation. I don't think it's worth devising a mechanism for those
> not covered by this.
With deepest respect, failing to provide documentation to users on our
widest-deployed platform seems pretty hostile to me. There was an
earlier suggestion that we provide URLs, which seems like a decent way
forward as those environments so locked down as to disallow outbound
HTTP are pretty rare, and non-networked computers are even more rare.
Cheers,
David.
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