On 2/5/20 8:05 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 06/02/2020 04:55, Steve Baldwin wrote:
>> Hi Vik,
>>
>> I'm not sure why this should be the default when it is easy to override the
>> default via a psqrc file. If you know enough to do it, you can.
>
> Because it isn't always easy to modify the .psqlrc file. This is
> especially true if you frequently connect to other people's systems.
>
>> Otherwise I
>> don't think it adds any value as a default since a novice user isn't going
>> to know what */!/? means. Maybe I'm missing something.
>
> A novice user won't understand any of psql's meta commands, either.
Except they can be found by doing \?
-1
>
>> -1 from me.
>
> Thank you for voting.
>
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