Re: psql \pset pager

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql \pset pager
Date: 2008-05-15 01:11:51
Message-ID: 87skwk5q20.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:

> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> My fingers sometimes run on "autoappend semicolon" mode and I end up
>> typing "\pset pager always;" instead of "\pset pager always".

FWIW I get bitten by this all the time with \set AUTOCOMMIT.

>> I didn't find this documented. Is the acceptance of bad input by design
>> or an oversight?
>
> Will be fixed in 8.4.

I expect there'll be some screams from people with scripts which start
failing. I wonder whether we won't have second thoughts by then.

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Gregory Stark
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