Specifiying username: inconsistency with mycli

Description

pgcli takes -U as the option flag to specify the user; mycli uses -u. This is confusing (I had to check before writing this issue, to make sure I got them right).

Could those two be unified?

[amjith]

I think it’s important to make our clients behave similarly to the official clients, because people would want to use them as drop-in replacements.

This was the original reason. My goal was to make pgcli or mycli so compelling and fully-featured that people will never have to use the official clients. It will grow to a point where they will alias psql and mysql to pgcli and mycli in their bashrc files.

Having said that I don’t see why we can’t support both -u and -U for both clients. I don’t see a conflict in pgcli if we use the lowercase -u and no conflict in mycli if we use -U for user. So I don’t mind supporting both uppercase and lowercase -u for user option.

[amjith]

Let’s stay out of using -U in mycli then. I think that’s a useful feature that we may implement in the future.