Postgres 11 – A First Look
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Postgres 11 – A First Look
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Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#2Thank you pg maintainers, you've made such a wonderful thing.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#3> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q
While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#4I love PG. heaps better than the alternatives, for many reasons. My main one, is native IPv6 object support.
I found the migration from 9.x to 10.x deeply painful, I think the one-time cost of the dump-restore cycle hurt me far more than I expected. I very much hope the transition to 11 can be done more expeditiously.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#5> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
What other apps use Ctrl+D ? I can't think of a single one.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#6> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
What other apps use Ctrl+D ? I can't think of a single one.
Practically any interactive shell. python or bash for instance. It's everywhere.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#7> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
What other apps use Ctrl+D ? I can't think of a single one.
Any command-line that uses readline[0], which in practice is an absolute ton of things.
This includes nodejs's repl, irb, ed, gdb, tftp, virsh, gpg --card-edit, and others.
It also works for programs that read stdin as if it's a file if you're using a modern readline shell to run them (e.g. cat, tee, etc)
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#8> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
What other apps use Ctrl+D ? I can't think of a single one.
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Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#9> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
What other apps use Ctrl+D ? I can't think of a single one.
Most apps that read from stdin handle EOF correctly.
Re: Postgres 11 – A First Look
#10> Now you can quit Postgres by simply typing quit or exit. Previously you had to use Ctrl + D or \q While this is good to help out beginners a bit, people should really learn Ctrl + D. It works practically everywhere and saves tons of time guessing/remembering and even typing the correct incantation for the program you want to exit.
Yet, principle of least surprise. What is more surprising, Ctrl+D working or quit/exit not working? Maybe I am an outlier but I would try exit/quit/bye first.