Re: psql line number reporting from stdin

Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of sáb nov 26 17:36:15 -0300 2011:
> There is a long-standing oddity in psql that running
>
> psql -f foo.sql
>
> returns error messages with file name and line number, like
>
> psql:foo.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo"
>
> but running
>
> psql < foo.sql does not. I suggest we change the latter to print
>
> psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo"

Not that I have ever used psql in this way, but this format is compatible
with Vim "quickfix" whereas the old one is not (not sure what Emacs
people would call this). Presumably, this being useless with <stdin> as
a file name is the reason this wasn't implemented in the first place.

+1 on the change.

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