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To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: psql's \h MOVE
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:11:11 -0400
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of dom abr 03 20:37:39 -0400 2011:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> >> I just noticed that \h MOVE is particularly unhelpful:
> >> alvherre=# \h move
> >> Command: MOVE
> >> Description: position a cursor
> >> Syntax:
> >> MOVE [ direction { FROM | IN } ] cursorname
> >
> >> The problem is that it doesn't specify what "direction" is. The doc
> >> text tells you to look into FETCH for details, but in \h you have to
> >> guess.
> > -1 ... if this annoys you, just duplicate the definition of direction
> > from FETCH.
>
> +1 for duplicating the definition.
Done that way.
(I'd like to have something like \h column_constraint for common stuff
in ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE, but that'll have to wait.)
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Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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