When running `clickhouse path/to/nonexistent.sql` or
`clickhouse local /tmp/aaa.rep`, the error messages were confusing:
the main binary showed the generic "Use one of the following commands"
help, and `clickhouse-local` showed "Positional option is not supported".
Now, if the argument looks like a file path (contains `/` or `.`) but
the file doesn't exist, a clear "no such file" error is shown instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
This commit improves the help output for all ClickHouse applications:
- Add `clickhouse help` command that lists all available subcommands
- Return exit code 0 for all help messages (previously some returned 1)
- Output help messages to stdout instead of stderr
- Use "clickhouse <cmd>" format instead of argv[0] in help messages
- Add dynamic `app_name` detection for `clickhouse client` and `clickhouse local`
to show correct invocation name based on how the binary was called
- Add `--no-sudo` option for `clickhouse start` and `clickhouse restart`
for environments without sudo (e.g., Docker containers)
- Add detailed help headers and footers for client and local with usage examples
Closes#58244
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
Previously it was only shipped as part of the client package, now it
will be bundled into the binary, and will be available as:
- clickhouse chdig
- clickhouse-chdig
- chdig
Note, that since now chdig will not be linked, we can remove all
quirks for this, that has been done in #79666
Now clickhouse --help/ch --help will print --help for clickhouse-local,
let's use just "clickhouse help" to get help with list of available
tools in clickhouse binary itself.
Signed-off-by: Azat Khuzhin <[email protected]>
Components like client/server/... are very generic, and there is no
point in disabling them, since it does not reduce amount of compiled
code a lot anyway (just a few modules for entrypoints, everything else
is already included in the clickhouse binary), and eventually they are
just symlinks to the clickhouse binary.
But there are few, that requires extra libraries, like ODBC bridge or
keeper components (and there is also standalone keeper binary compiled
with musl), those had been kept.
Also add some descriptions for some utils and change exit code to 0 for
--help.
Signed-off-by: Azat Khuzhin <[email protected]>
