Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
>
> David Christensen wrote:
>>
>> +                       if (MYSQL_HELP_CHECK("use"))
>> +                       {
>> +                               MYSQL_HELP_OUTPUT("\\c database");
>> +                       }
>>
> [snip]
>> +                       else if (MYSQL_HELP_CHECK("load data  
>> infile"))
>> +                       {
>> +                               MYSQL_HELP_OUTPUT("\\copy");
>> +                       }
>>
>
> Quite apart from any considerations covered by other people, these  
> two at least could be positively misleading ... the psql commands  
> are not exact equivalents of the MySQL commands, AIUI.

The \copy could definitely be considered a stretch; I know \c supports  
more options than the equivalent USE, but isn't it a proper superset  
of functionality?

Regards,

David
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David Christensen
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