Here's the summary of my wheelings and dealings. No code yet, but trust
me, you don't want it.

* Changed one file into many
* Changed few functions into countless
* Added GNU long option support (added test to configure.in,
  definition to config.h.in)
  [ This feature is under protest by Tom L. ]
* Extra arguments are now taken as dbname and username
  (it used to fail if you have more than one extra)
* Added switch -V (--version) to display client and server version and
  warn about possible incompatibilities
* Added \copyright command. Changed welcome message accordingly.
* Added a few long slash commands equivalent to short ones (e.g.,
  \list = \l)
* Rewrote backslash command parser from scratch. Can now quote
  arguments. (Only doublequotes. Single quotes to come.)
* Added message output channel as alternative to query output and
  stderr. Might be useful to funnel output in scripts.
* SQL command help is now generated directly from the SGML sources at
  build time.
  [ Must have perl. Might be a problem on Windows. Perhaps package
  preparsed version as well. ]
* \connect now asks for password when appropriate
* Added switch -U allowing you to specify username on cmd line
* -? prints out default username, host, port, etc. in help screen
* PSQLRC env variable can override the name of your startup script
* PSQL_EDITOR can set your prefered editor for \e and \E (overriding
  EDITOR and VISUAL)
* Fixed flat tire on bike ...
* when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
  aborted program)
* Custom prompts in tcsh style
  (No, I am not partial to tcsh. In fact, I don't even use it. But
  using % as escape character rather than \ saves a lot of headaches.)
* Increased abstraction of input routines.
  [ Cheers to Matthew D.! ]
* Started to clean up \copy. Can now specify delimiters and "with
  oids". Still needs some work though, especially regarding binary and
  quoting/escaping. I'll probably end up writing a better strtok()
  before this is all over.

More in a week . . .

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Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:12:29 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
psql Week 1
Peter,

what  I miss on pgsql is ability to keep commands I issued in history file
as bash does for example. Say, ~/.pgsqlhistory
Of course, not to save passwords.

	Regards,
		Oleg

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:12:29 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
> 
> Here's the summary of my wheelings and dealings. No code yet, but trust
> me, you don't want it.
> 
> * Changed one file into many
> * Changed few functions into countless
> * Added GNU long option support (added test to configure.in,
>   definition to config.h.in)
>   [ This feature is under protest by Tom L. ]
> * Extra arguments are now taken as dbname and username
>   (it used to fail if you have more than one extra)
> * Added switch -V (--version) to display client and server version and
>   warn about possible incompatibilities
> * Added \copyright command. Changed welcome message accordingly.
> * Added a few long slash commands equivalent to short ones (e.g.,
>   \list = \l)
> * Rewrote backslash command parser from scratch. Can now quote
>   arguments. (Only doublequotes. Single quotes to come.)
> * Added message output channel as alternative to query output and
>   stderr. Might be useful to funnel output in scripts.
> * SQL command help is now generated directly from the SGML sources at
>   build time.
>   [ Must have perl. Might be a problem on Windows. Perhaps package
>   preparsed version as well. ]
> * \connect now asks for password when appropriate
> * Added switch -U allowing you to specify username on cmd line
> * -? prints out default username, host, port, etc. in help screen
> * PSQLRC env variable can override the name of your startup script
> * PSQL_EDITOR can set your prefered editor for \e and \E (overriding
>   EDITOR and VISUAL)
> * Fixed flat tire on bike ...
> * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
>   aborted program)
> * Custom prompts in tcsh style
>   (No, I am not partial to tcsh. In fact, I don't even use it. But
>   using % as escape character rather than \ saves a lot of headaches.)
> * Increased abstraction of input routines.
>   [ Cheers to Matthew D.! ]
> * Started to clean up \copy. Can now specify delimiters and "with
>   oids". Still needs some work though, especially regarding binary and
>   quoting/escaping. I'll probably end up writing a better strtok()
>   before this is all over.
> 
> More in a week . . .
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut - peter_e@gmx.net
> http://yi.org/peter-e
> 
> 
> ************
> 

_____________________________________________________________
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phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83


Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:10:21 +0400 (MSD)
Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
> Peter,
> 
> what  I miss on pgsql is ability to keep commands I issued in history file
> as bash does for example. Say, ~/.pgsqlhistory
> Of course, not to save passwords.

readline has the capability.  We would just need to enable it.  Good
idea.

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Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:30:37 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
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Does this include the initial connect?  I has password authentication
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than failed....

roland
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05 Oct 1999 23:16:30 -0400
Roland Roberts <roberts@panix.com>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
>   aborted program)

This is bad.

Consider some process that connects to various DBs and does stuff like
drop foo.

If connect fails assume that the user no longer wanted to be connected to
the old connection.

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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 00:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
"Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
On Oct 6, Oleg Bartunov mentioned:

> what  I miss on pgsql is ability to keep commands I issued in history file
> as bash does for example. Say, ~/.pgsqlhistory

Consider it done. (Because it is done.)

> Of course, not to save passwords.

Usernames and passwords are entered through a different channel. This will
not be a problem.

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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:26:49 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
On Oct 6, Matthew N. Dodd mentioned:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
> >   aborted program)
> 
> This is bad.
> 
> Consider some process that connects to various DBs and does stuff like
> drop foo.
> 
> If connect fails assume that the user no longer wanted to be connected to
> the old connection.

I forgot to mention that this only happens in interactive mode for the
very reason you cited. I do not see a problem there.

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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:29:09 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1