| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Sarah Officer <officers(at)aries(dot)tucson(dot)saic(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] psql parsing and variable problems |
| Date: | 2000-01-20 18:10:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200001201810.NAA09382@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I have been looking at the psql documentation posted on the web
> site. I am trying to set variables, but I can't seem to make that
> happen. I also notice that psql doesn't seem to parse full
> backslash commands. Are the documents out of date, or is the a bug?
>
> \echo foo
>
> is interpreted as \e and pops me into the editor.
>
> \qecho foo
>
> is interpreted as \q and exits psql.
The web page manual reflects the coming 7.0 release. We have talked
about splitting the docs so there is a stable and development version of
the docs, but we haven't do that yet.
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