Re: BUG #7817: psql does not relate to footer settings in extended mode

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:33:37AM +0000, emesika(at)redhat(dot)com wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 7817
> Logged by: Eli Mesika
> Email address: emesika(at)redhat(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.1.7
> Operating system: Fedora 16
> Description:
>
> psql does not relate to footer settings in extended mode
> Sometimes we need to run a sql command withot generating header and footer.
> This can be done using the -t flag and --pset=footer=off
> The problem is that the footer is still diaplyed even if it was set to off
> if we use the extended mode for the query (-x flag)
>
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1) create a table without any data
> for example
> create table text(i int);
> 2) run
> psql -U <user> -t --pset=footer=off <db>
> 3) No output is generated
> 4) run
> psql -U <user> -t --pset=footer=off -x <db>
> 5) Output generated : "(No Rows)"
>
> Actual results:
> psql does not honour the footer settings when output is defined to be in
> Extended Mode
>
> Expected results:
> psql should not generate any output is query has no results and -t and
> --pset=footer=off were given

This has been fixed in PG 9.3 (released today) for the specific options
you supplied:

$ psql -t --pset=footer=off test
Default footer is off.
psql (9.4devel)
Type "help" for help.

CREATE TABLE test (x INT);
CREATE TABLE
SELECT * FROM test;

\x
Expanded display is on.
SELECT * FROM test;

Unfortunately, this did not fix the more simple case where
--pset=footer=off is specified, but not -t:

$ psql --pset=footer=off test
Default footer is off.
psql (9.4devel)
Type "help" for help.

CREATE TABLE test (x INT);
CREATE TABLE
SELECT * FROM test;
x
---

\x
Expanded display is on.
SELECT * FROM test;
--> (No rows)

The attached patch fixes this, and makes it match the rest of the output
formats, which do honor --pset=footer=off alone for footers.

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