On 02/28/2014 04:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> Well, then we just have to add more info to --help
>> +1 for at least doing that. I found it annoying just the other day not
>> to find it in plsql's --help output, in a moment of brain fade when I
>> forgot how to spell it. So it's not just beginners who can benefit, it's
>> people like me whose memory occasionally goes awry.
> No objection in principle, but what are we talking about exactly?
> Adding some new backslash command that lists all the variables that have
> special meanings?
That's a pretty good idea, especially if we give that command a command
line option too, so something like
psql --special-variables
would run that command and exit.
Maybe I'm over-egging the pudding a bit ;-)
cheers
andrew
