Re: psql command aliases support - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bernd Helmle
Subject Re: psql command aliases support
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Msg-id E39E714BCFAAA675F207CEF8@imhotep.credativ.de
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In response to Re: psql command aliases support  ("Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com>)
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--On Freitag, April 04, 2008 01:11:51 +1100 Brendan Jurd
<direvus@gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the virtue of allowing such a syntax in the first place?  I
> can't think of any other context where it's okay to issue a command
> together with arguments without some kind of delimiter, for the
> obvious reason that it introduces ambiguities such as those Greg
> described.

Yeah, i always felt very uncomfortable with this behavior. Anyways, it's
too late to complain about that and it shouldn't block new features which
can increase usability on the other side.

--
  Thanks

                    Bernd

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