Notices by Michela Marie 🇨🇦 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)

@fribbledom I read man pages pretty much every day, and I’ve never felt they were missing any features. They are incredibly useful and effective for me.

As others have pointed out, many of the features you mentioned are already available. I’m the vast majority of Linux and Unix utilities or other programs that I have checked for man pages on over the years have decent ones written for them. I can’t think of a time when I’ve found that a man page did not exist for a Linux or Unix command.

@fribbledom Truly, apart from a recent Galera cluster mess after a power outage, I’ve never had any issues with MySQL related to it’s design or bugs, etc. The Galera issue may have been caused by something else as well. I’ve been using MySQL and MariaDB on many mission-critical projects at work over many years. It’s been really good. I’ve used PostgreSQL too, and it also works well, thought it takes a lot of getting used to, coming from MySQL, and as was pointed out, does not have as many tools.