| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net" <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Confusing behavior of psql's \e |
| Date: | 2021-04-06 09:17:58 |
| Message-ID: | ee7a38c7f05f222eb465763def0bd4ed8c904b77.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 17:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > Attached is version 6.
>
> Pushed with some mostly-cosmetic fiddling.
>
> One thing I changed that wasn't cosmetic is that as you had it,
> the behavior of "\e file" varied depending on whether the query
> buffer had been empty, which surely seems like a bad idea.
> I made it do discard_on_quit always in that case. I think there
> might be a case for discard_on_quit = false always, ie maybe
> the user wanted to load the file into the query buffer as-is.
> But it seems like a pretty weak case --- you'd be more likely
> to just use \i for that situation.
Thanks for that!
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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