Re: psql -e

Hmm, a little late here, but why not just unbuffer stdout, or are there
reasons to preserve some buffering?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:53:38AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Rajesh Kumar Mallah writes:
> >> The echo feature of psql echos the query after its executed.
> >> does it makes more sense to have the reverse.
>
> > The query is printed *before* it is executed, but you might not see it
> > because your terminal is not flushing the stdout at the right times.
>
> It might be a good idea to do an explicit fflush(stdout) right after
> printing the query. I observe that PSQLexec() does this, and SendQuery
> does too in one path --- but not in the other.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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