Re: A propose to revise \watch help message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kyotaro Horiguchi
Subject Re: A propose to revise \watch help message
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Msg-id 20230830.103356.1909699532104167477.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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In response to A propose to revise \watch help message  (Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>)
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At Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:21:26 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in 
> Recently \watch got the following help message.
> 
> >   \watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]
> >                           execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times
> >                           stop if less than MIN rows are returned
> 
> The "m=MIN" can be a bit misleading. It may look like it's about
> interval or counts, but it actually refers to the row number, which is
> not spelled out in the line.
> 
> Would it make sense to change it to MINROWS?  There's enough room in
> the line for that change and the doc already uses min_rows.

Mmm. I noticed the continuation lines are indented too much, probably
because of the backslash escape in the main line.  The attached
includes the fix for that.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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