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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: psql's \h MOVE
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:53:08 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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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.

> We could fix this by including a note about fetch in the <synopsis>,
> so that it'd look like this:

> 	alvherre=# \h move
> 	Command:     MOVE
> 	Description: position a cursor
> 	Syntax:
> 	MOVE [ direction [ FROM | IN ] ] cursor_name

> 	See FETCH for details on direction

-1 ... if this annoys you, just duplicate the definition of direction
from FETCH.

			regards, tom lane

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