Re: psql and named pipes

* Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> [080327 13:51]:

> Ah! Yeah, I knew that and forgot :-) It's easier than that actually --
> you just need to keep the pipe open in another process. So I can do
> this: first open a terminal with
>
> $ psql -f foo
>
> And then, in another terminal,
>
> $ cat > foo &
> [1] 29155
>
> [1]+ Stopped cat >foo
> $ echo "begin;" > foo
> $ echo "create table a (a int);" > foo
> $ echo "insert into a values (1);" > foo
> $ echo "insert into a values (2);" > foo
> $ echo "insert into a values (3);" > foo
> $ echo "commit;" > foo
> $ echo "select * from a;" > foo
> $ kill %1
> -bash: echo: write error: Appel système interrompu
> [1]+ Complété cat >foo
>
>
> And while this is going on, the other terminal shows the output being
> produced by psql.
>
> Thanks for the reminder :-)

And thanks for the "any open writer" trick. Makes it even easier for me
to keep using named pipes with psql.

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