Re: continuation character for meta commands in psql

On 1/24/20 9:42 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've searched the internet and also the pgsql-general list for an answer
> to this question, but couldn't find one.
>
> Is there a continuation character for meta commands in psql?
>
> I've seen mention that a caret (^) could be used, but it didn't work
> correctly and the psql man page makes no mention of it.
>
> I'd like to do something like:
>
> \set PROMPT1 'long prompt code' \
> 'other long prompt configurations' \
> 'and more still'
>
> in my .psqlrc file.
>
> What do you folks think?
>
> Thanks for any help or guidance!

See:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-psql.html

Meta-Commands

>
> -m

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