Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall
Date: 2003-08-12 01:32:18
Message-ID: 3670000.1060651938@lerlaptop.lerctr.org
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--On Monday, August 11, 2003 20:36:11 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:

> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>> Can we modify pg_dumpall (or pg_dump?) to include a \pset pager off
>>>> to prevent the setval() calls from halting an interactive \i of the
>>>> dump file?
>>>
>>> Your pg_dump's actually invoke the pager?
>
>> Seriously, sometimes it's useful.
>
> Are you using any nonstandard settings in ~/.psqlrc? I've never seen
> this happen myself.
Nope. There is no .psqlrc.

It seems to be new with 7.4cvs. (dunno about earlier 7.4), but it definitely
did NOT happen with 7.3.x

LER

>
> regards, tom lane

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