Re: REINDEX VERBOSE unknown option
Geoff Winkless <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 22:48, Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-11-19 11:37:04 +0000, Geoff Winkless wrote: > > Even if you do that you're still requiring the user to parse syntax > > according to esoteric rules. > > Oh, please. Those "esoteric rules" have been in wide-spread use for > decades. It wasn't meant to be insulting, I meant "esoteric" in the strict sense: that you need to have specific knowledge to parse them. My point was that modifying the rules (by making certain things bold or italic) wouldn't really solve the problem - if you don't know what the rules are, you're unlikely to be any better off if someone adds to them. Geoff