a short trip in the wayback machine

On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote:

the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed
(psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be
restored :-)

Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote:

the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed
(psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be
restored :-)

Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps?

It has at least one prominent user -
<http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/31-A-tiny-psql-tip.html#comments&gt;
;-)

cheers

andrew

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:

the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed
(psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be
restored :-) I'm quite never sure how far back to take pure docs
patches, though. Should I just fix HEAD, or HEAD plus 8.4, or all the
way back to 7.4?

Clearly a mistake. If you have the energy to patch it all the way
back, please do.

regards, tom lane

On Sunday 09 August 2009 17:57:23 Andrew Dunstan wrote:

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

On Sunday 09 August 2009 03:53:55 Andrew Dunstan wrote:

the documentation of psql's --no-readline option was removed
(psql-ref.sgml v 1.23). I think this was a mistake and it should be
restored :-)

Does that option have a point? Should the option be removed, perhaps?

It has at least one prominent user -
<http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/31-A-tiny-ps
ql-tip.html#comments> ;-)

OK, if you re-document it, it may be useful to mention that as a use case.