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The background of what you learned on is key to whats intuitive or natural. If you came up on an unix based system then yes you'd expect this. If you learned da
by craigkerstiens 8y ago
The background of what you learned on is key to whats intuitive or natural. If you came up on an unix based system then yes you'd expect this. If you learned databases via MySQL then you'd expect show database to work.
Today though many more are coming to development without an academic or linux background. If you install Postgres via Postgres.app there is a chance you're not at all familiar with a commandline. What is intuitive... yes it's relative to your background. I very much hope that the number quit or exit is intuitive for, those that don't come from a linux or academic background, grows of time. This does become a more valuable tool the more beginners there are, and personally from working with a lot of beginners already suspect it's more valuable than many realize.
- tormeh 8y agoMost CLIs can be exited with "quit" or "exit". Many trap Ctrl-C, so those two are the first things I try. Didn't know about Ctrl-D before now, and I've worked as a sysadm.
- Jedd 8y ago> The background of what you learned on is key to whats intuitive or natural. That's pretty much the summary of my post. > If you install Postgres via Postgres.app ... I had to go lookup what postgres.app actually is -- evidently it's an easy way for Mac users to install postgres. I don't have a Mac -- which is also true for most people -- so I can't speak to the average mac user's experience or expectations. As I have (had to repeatedly) say a few times now, I think it's great that multiple options to end the program are available. I'd imagine for Mac users the 'most intuitive' thing would be to find some magic symbol on their keyboard and combine it with the letter Q.
- solarengineer 8y agoMac users either don't stop the service at all, or they use the GUI to do so (if they installed via the postgres.app tool)