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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Omission of "(or C)" in psql's "pset title" header
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:50:53 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:51:09PM -0400, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 06:11:20PM -0400, David G. Johnston wrote:
> >     > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/app-psql.html
> >     >
> >     > The other pset keywords with black-slash aliases include a "(or
> <letter>)
> >     "
> >     > paren after the keyword.  "title" does not (should be "C")
> >
> >     Attached is a patch to implement this, including a doc patch.
> >
> >
> >
> > ​Wasn't expecting a code change - just the docs.  The docs already said
> the "\C
> > [ title ]" is a valid meta-command...
> >
> > Did you maybe end up making a command line "-C 'title'" valid instead?
>
> Obviously I am not understanding you. I thought you were looking for
> \pset C to be documented, and to work:
>
>         test=> \pset C test
>         Title is "test".
>
> That does not work in the current sources, so I had to add it.  This is
> similar to how "\pset t" works as an alias for "\pset tuples_only":
>
>         test=> \pset t
>         Tuples only is on.
>
> When our docs say:
>
>     <term><literal>tuples_only</literal> (or <literal>t</literal>)</term>
>
> it is not talking about using \t, but rather "\pset t" --- perhaps that
> is where the confusion is coming from.  (Yeah, I know it is kind of
> odd.)
>
>
​Yes, I read that as "\pset tuples_only" and "\t" are alternate forms of
the same thing
​ and thought that "\pset title" and "\C" should be documented similarly.
Making "\pset C <label>" work doesn't seem like an improvement.

David J.

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