Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall
Date: 2003-08-12 01:26:42
Message-ID: 194b01c36070$d918f140$2800a8c0@mars
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> > Your pg_dump's actually invoke the pager? Are you manually starting
> > psql, then doing \i dumpfile? Why would you do that rather than psql
> > template1 <dumpfile?
> Because I'm a dork :-).
>
> Seriously, sometimes it's useful.

The most useful reason (and I wish you could turn it on with psql < file) is
the line number in the file where any errors occur.

(TODO item?)

Chris

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