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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 23:38:20 +0200
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Add \echo_stderr to psql
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 09:31:16PM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > Any interest in this?
> 
> Yep, although I'm not sure of the suggested command name. More suggestions:
>   \stderr ...
>   \err ...
>   \error ...
>   \warn ...
>   \warning ...

Naming Things is one of the two[1] hard problems in CS.

I'm happy with whatever the community consensus comes out to be.

Best,
David.

[1] The others are cache coherency and off-by-one
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