Re: MySQL-ism help patch for psql

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2010-01-19T19:43:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I'm not convinced that we should start adding syntax helpers like that 
> to psql. For now it is an arbitrary subset of MySQL stuff, are we going 
> to add oracle/db2/mssql/drizzle/mariadb and whatnot later on?
> Also I can already see people asking "well you already know that this is 
> that command - why not emulate it fully?".

Good points. However, it only takes effect in interactive mode, so I
don't see it as a promise to do much. I'll make an analogy to:

  $ git difff
  git: 'difff' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

  Did you mean this?
          diff

Regards,
	Jeff Davis