On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2014-02-28 19:13 GMT+01:00 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > >> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes: >> > for beginners is relative difficult to set psql variable from command line >> > and option >> > -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 is little bit unclean. >> > and for any user it is not comfortable. So I propose a new psql option >> > --on-error-stop >> >> That saves a whole three characters ... not sure it's really worth it, >> especially since it will not work on older versions. >> >> Also, it's not like this will save people from having to know about the >> ON_ERROR_STOP variable, because there will still be plenty of contexts >> where they need to know that (eg, inspecting the setting or changing it >> mid-session). So I don't buy the argument that this simplifies what >> beginners need to learn. > > > three chars is not important > > important is a placing in --help output >
Well, then we just have to add more info to --help
