| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bug in on_error_rollback !? |
| Date: | 2006-10-27 15:10:59 |
| Message-ID: | 1161961859.27820.58.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 03:50 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> psql variables and commands are not SQL, and are case sensitive. For
> example, \ds and \dS are not at all the same.
>
> This is documented clearly on the psql man page, so it is simply not a
> bug
It may be documented, but \set still has a terrible user interface.
There is no feedback about whether a variable has been successfully
changed. Updates to non-existent variables are silently accepted, and
references to non-existent variables do not result in an error. I've
complained about this before[1], but there wasn't a consensus on how to
improve this behavior (given the need for backward compatibility).
-Neil
[1] http://mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org/msg41273.html
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