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

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

> * Do we really need the 'Report bugs to' blurb for --help-variables?

Probably not.

> * Since we're not exhaustive about documenting environment variales, do
>    we really need to document TMPDIR and SHELL?

They are bit more important than most of others, but probably not really 
necessary to be there as they are not psql specific.

> * Shouldn't we document that PROMPT1 is the standard prompt, PROMPT2 is
>    for already started statements, and PROMPT3 is for COPY FROM STDIN?

Yes please!

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