Re: psql --batch

2017-08-28 8:56 GMT+02:00 Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>:

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> I find myself regurgitating the incantation
>>
>> psql -qAtX -v ON_ERRORS_STOP=1
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>> quite a bit. It's not ... super friendly.
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>> It strikes me that we could possibly benefit from a 'psql --batch' option.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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> The link between -qAtX and "batch" is not that fully obvious, especially
> the unaligned tuples-only part. If so, why not some -F <tab> as well?
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> ISTM that the real pain is the "-v ON_ERRORS_STOP=1" which I occasionally
> encountered as well, the other one letter ones are not too bad. Maybe it
> would be enough to have a shortcut for this one, say "-B"?
>

I agree with last sentence. I don't think so -qAtX are expected always, but
"-v ON_ERROS_STOP=1" is pretty often.

What do you think about long option "---on-errors-stop" ?

Regards

Pavel

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