Re: Suggestion for psql: --file -

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Albert REINER <areiner(at)tph(dot)tuwien(dot)ac(dot)at>
Cc: PostgreSQL-SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for psql: --file -
Date: 2001-02-02 15:16:05
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0102021615130.923-100000@peter.localdomain
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Albert REINER writes:

> wouldn't it be a good idea (and if it is, I am not sure what list to
> post it to) to have psql's option -f / --file take "-" for stdin, as
> many programs do?

Seems reasonable.

> P.S: BTW, the man page (7.0.2) of psql is not very clear: it took me
> some experimentation to find out that you have to do "\set VARIABLE"
> interactively or give "--set VARIABLE=" to set a variable that does
> not take a value.

Suggested new wording?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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