Re: psql man page error?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I think the proper fix is:
>
> > <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo -e
> > "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
>
> > I think all modern operating systems understand echo -e at this point.
>
> No, they don't, and neither does the Single Unix Spec:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html
>
> So your version of the example depends on non-standards-compliant
> echo behavior, which is not better than before.

Well, at least my example works on _some_ operating systems, while the
previous worked on none of them, so it is _better_.

I can't think of a good way to do this except converting the example to
a <programlisting> block that will not change newlines:

echo '\x
SELECT * FROM foo;' | psql

Is that what people want?

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