Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I've discovered one thing about this design that is not so good, which
>> is that if you open a single, double, or dollar quote, then the
>> instructions that are provided under that design do not work:
>
> I was kind of imagining that we could make the hint text vary depending
> on the parsing state.  Maybe that's too hard to get to --- but if the
> prompt-creating code knows what it is, perhaps this can too.

prompt_status does seem to be available in psql's MainLoop(), so I
think that could be done, but the problem is that I don't know exactly
what message would be useful to print when we're in a "in quotes"
state.  If I had a good message text for that state, I might just
choose to use it always rather than multiplying the number of
messages.

More broadly, I think what is needed here is less C-fu than
English-fu.  If we come up with something good, we can make it print
that thing.

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Robert Haas
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