| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Chad Wagner <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: \prompt for psql |
| Date: | 2007-02-17 15:07:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200702171507.l1HF79W04516@momjian.us |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Seems the consensus was this was a good idea, and not feature-creep.
> >
> > I wonder whether we want this to read from the console, like the
> > password prompts, or from stdin. Not sure which is more useful.
> >
> I think from stdin. Otherwise it won't be possible to script it at all.
> Passwords are special, other prompts are not, I think.
stdin makes it impossible to read a script from stdin and still prompt
the user, but I think that is of limited usefulness.
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