Re: Concurrent psql patch

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:55:07AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:03:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > > But these kinds of inconsistent behaviours can be traps for users. It means
> > > "\c1" and "\c 1" do different things even though "\cpostgres" and \c postgres"
> > > do the same thing. And it means "\c1" might connect to a database named "1"
> > > today but switch sessions tomorrow.
> >
> > The real problem here is trying to overload an existing command name
> > with too many different meanings.  You need to pick some other name
> > besides \c.
> >
> > If you were willing to think of it as "switch session" instead of "connect",
> > then \S is available ...
>
> Since this command will be getting used very frequently by anyone using
> concurrent connections interactively, it'd be nice if it was lower-case.
> It looks like that limits us to j, k, m, n, v, and y.  In unix this idea
> is about jobs, what about using \j?

I suppose there is some reason the bash/csh job control characters:

  %-
  %+
  %1

won't work?

-dg

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