Thread: a short trip in the wayback machine
While following up a comment from Tom on my blog, I discovered that some 9 1/2 years ago in a patch bearing the comment: Fixed psql double quoting of SQL ids Fixed libpq printing functions the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed (psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be restored :-) I'm quite never sure how far back to take pure docs patches, though. Should I just fix HEAD, or HEAD plus 8.4, or all the way back to 7.4? cheers andrew
On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed > (psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be > restored :-) Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps?
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed >> (psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be >> restored :-) >> > > Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps? > > It has at least one prominent user - <http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/31-A-tiny-psql-tip.html#comments> ;-) cheers andrew
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed
> (psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be
> restored :-) I'm quite never sure how far back to take pure docs
> patches, though. Should I just fix HEAD, or HEAD plus 8.4, or all the
> way back to 7.4?
Clearly a mistake. If you have the energy to patch it all the way
back, please do.
regards, tom lane
On Sunday 09 August 2009 17:57:23 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed > >> (psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be > >> restored :-) > > > > Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps? > > It has at least one prominent user - > <http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/31-A-tiny-ps >ql-tip.html#comments> ;-) OK, if you re-document it, it may be useful to mention that as a use case.