Re: psql line number reporting from stdin

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Naysayers can always make a case
>

Should've added that I'm not one of them :)

+1 from me on the improvement.

> for backwards-compatibility, or not
> > breaking the scripts written with the existing behaviour in mind.
>
> I'm having a hard time imagining how this could break anything. What
> scenario did you have in mind?
>

Probably parsing the lines that start with 'ERROR' to report that there
were errors in the script.

>
> > Do our
> > docs have anything to say about scripts executed from stdin?
>
> If they do, we can always update them.
>

At the cost of breaking existing scripts (which I am not sure is the case).

Regards,
--
Gurjeet Singh
EnterpriseDB Corporation
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