Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

Most popular questions on every topic are the simplest ones. Imagine a parallel universe where this patch is contained in the codebase - I argue this question about exiting the repl still is the top one, albeit with less votes.

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017, 11:03 Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:56 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Daniel Vérité" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
>> When looking at the most popular postgres questions on stackoverflow:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql?sort=votes
>>
>> the first one (most up-voted) happens to be:
>>
>> "How to exit from PostgreSQL command line utility: psql"
>>
>> now at 430k views and 1368 upvotes.
>
> Wow, that's pretty crazy.  I was going to vote against this proposal,
> but I think I might change my mind.  How can we say that this isn't a
> problem for users given that data?  It's evidently not only *a*
> problem, but arguably the biggest one.

That's an impressive number, indeed. And an argument about potentially
doing something.

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Michael