Re: [HACKERS] use of pager on Windows psql

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Not sure why ware are not. Should we enabled that code on Win32 and see
> > how it works? Can you test it? Was it some MinGW limitation? I do see
> > isatty() being used on lots of platforms.
> >
> > This is kind of odd. Ah, I bet it came from libpq's PQprint(), which I
> > think we had working on Win32 long before we had psql working and
> > perhaps I copied it from there. I don't see the Win32 checks around
> > isatty() anywhere else.
> >
> >
> >> In fact, it looks to me like it would be much more sensible to #include
> >> "settings.h" and then simply test pset.notty for all platforms.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, we could do that but does the isatty() value ever change while psql
> > is running? When you do '\g filename' does stdout then have isatty as
> > false?
> >
>
>
> Good point. I think the best thing would just be to remove the #ifndef
> WIN32 / #endif lines

OK, patch applied to remove the Win32 test in both places.

I was wrong about \g filename changing stdout, I think. It keeps stdout
but uses a different output stream. I am just unsure, given all the
features of psql, wether it could change stdin/stdout while running in
some way.

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