Personal opinion: I think we are coming across a little harder on Peter
then most of us are intending :( I think we're blowing a few
misconceptions a little out of proportion, which is just fueling things
further ...
Peter, I agree with Thomas about the work you are doing, I just tend to
come across 'strong' when I disagree with something ...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > I totally see what you're saying and I'm going to try
> > to address it. But there was noone who said anything
> > about this so far.
>
> OK, an overdue comment: the new psql is great (current and future
> discrepencies excepted of course ;)
>
> Thanks for sticking with it Peter; we've already got a good
> foundation, and as we stumble across these minor differences in
> behavior it will get even closer to an ideal interface.
>
> My current favorite feature: command history across psql sessions.
> When testing I can jump in and out of psql after rebuilding the
> backend and can just uparrow to my last test command. Nice. And for
> this case, I won't complain about a lack of backward compatibility :))
>
> - Thomas
>
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> Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
> South Pasadena, California
>
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