Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories
Date: 2007-11-14 20:34:40
Message-ID: 473B5BE0.7070906@sun.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Letting psql execute a script file that is really a directory doesn't complain
>> at all:
>>
>> $ psql -f /tmp
>>
>> Should we do some kind of stat() before opening the file and abort if it's a
>> directory?
>
> Actually anything other than a plain file, right? (Do we really want to
> be able to psql -f a_pipe?)
>

What's about symlink to regular file/pipe?

Zdenek

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