On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:57:50AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:28:03AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > > 1.  I use psql to get information from the database.  But what happens
> > > if psql spits out an error?  At the moment, it just messes up the
> > > display...
> > 
> > The usual method is simply to add 2>/dev/null to the command.  If you
> > want to be smarter about errors you need to work harder.
> 
> Aha, good point.  I'll do that.  No need to be too clever, the same
> error will be displayed at some point anyway.
> 
> > > 2.  How do you complete either a hostname or a path at the same point?
> > > PostgreSQL accepts either a hostname or a directory containing a socket
> > > after -h.
> > 
> > The easy way is _alternative, assuming you have functions for both
> > cases.  _ssh does (after a bit of editing):
> > 
> >   _alternative \
> >     'hosts:remote host name:_ssh_hosts' \
> >     'users:login name:_ssh_users -qS@'
> 
> Excellent, I shall do that.  I tried looking for an example, I'll have
> to try harder next time.  :-)

Ok, here's the latest one.  I'll find a web page to put this up on at
some point...

-Dom