Re: psql terminates on first error

Am 02.03.23 um 15:33 schrieb Tom Lane:
> 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

BINGO!

Thanks a lot.

Sometimes you forget what you have done earlier. ;-)

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