Re: [Fwd: Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables?
>>
>> -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho
>
> I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long
> commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with
> an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc.
>
> But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument.

I think it mostly depends on how far we think we might extend it.  I
mean, --help-variables is fine as a parallel to --help.  But if we're
eventually going to have help for 12 things, --help=TOPIC is a lot
better than 12 separate switches.  So +0.5 for your proposal from me.

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