On ons, 2011-11-16 at 11:41 +1300, Jasen Betts wrote:
> psql --help  
> 
> suggests that the default database name is user's system account username 
> however the default database is actually the same as the value of the
> username parameter and only takes the system user name if neither is
> specified.
> 
> perhaps it should say 
> 
>   Default: same as database username, "%s"

There is even more involved.  For example, it takes into account whether
the PGDATABASE environment variable is set.  If it is, the updated
wording you propose wouldn't be correct anymore either.

Not sure how much of this logic we want to cram into a one-line help.
At some point, one has to read the documentation.





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