Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> BTW while reading the psql manpage I noticed this statement:

>        A popular application of this facility is to refer to  the  last
>        inserted OID in subsequent statements to build a foreign key
>        scenario.

> (This refers to :foo interpolation.)  Talking about popular application
> of OIDs in FKs seems so 90's.  Should we remove that phrase?

Yeah, probably; it's been a very long time since that was considered
a good way to do things.  Can you think of some other example to replace
that with?

            regards, tom lane