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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: psql's \h MOVE
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:37:39 -0400
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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.
>
>> 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.
+1 for duplicating the definition.
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Robert Haas
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