Re: psql -l

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:57:35AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> will trillich <will(at)serensoft(dot)com> writes:
> > $ psql -V
> > No database specified
>
> This seems awfully fishy, since (a) there is no such error message
> anywhere in 7.1, and (b) I don't get that behavior out of 7.1:
>
> $ ~postgres/version71/bin/psql -V
> psql (PostgreSQL) 7.1.2
> contains readline, history support
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
> Portions Copyright (c) 1996 Regents of the University of California
> Read the file COPYRIGHT or use the command \copyright to see the
> usage and distribution terms.
> $
>
> Perhaps you are invoking psql through some kind of wrapper script that
> is doing the wrong thing?

i'm wondering now if this may be a debian packaging mishap...
or maybe i've got psql v7.0.3 trying to work with postmaster
7.1, but that doesn't seem likely...

at any rate -- maybe this session with 'strings' might help you
see identify what's goofing up here.

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