Re: [Fwd: Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2014-08-28 14:04:27 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 28/08/14 13:20, Andres Freund wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Stuff I wondered about:
> >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables?
> 
> -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho

I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long
commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with
an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc.

But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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