Re: psql terminates on first error

Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> writes:
> While trying to transfer data from one instance to another using
> pg_dumpall and psql, the psql stopped on first error, causing pg_dumpall
> to terminate as well.
> This behaviour was seen on Windows (EDB installer), but is different on
> Linux.
> Only when using an option -c "\set ON_ERROR_STOP false" (plus -f - of
> course to continue reading) psql continued after first error.
> Not even the option -v ON_ERROR_STOP=0 helped.
> Why is the behaviour between Linux and Windows different? This is not
> reflected in the documentation.

It shouldn't be different. However, this report would be trivially
explained if your Windows machine has an %APPDATA%\postgresql\psqlrc.conf
file that turns ON_ERROR_STOP on. You could try invoking psql with
the -X command line switch to prevent reading that.

regards, tom lane