Re: Fwd: psql include file using relative path

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:05:19PM -0500, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> Good question, I hadn't thought of that either, and thinking about
> it a bit I think we'd want to keep the current behaviour of \i and
> provide new behaviour using a new command.
>
> Say when we are processing a pretty nested file after multiple \ir
> commands, a \i <relative path file> in any of those files should
> look for that file in psql's CWD/PWD. That is what the user expects
> from \i command currently and I don't think it'd be desirable to
> break that assumption.

I'm not sure I understand. Stuff that worked before would still work.

Should stuff break when it has a legitimately accessible path in it
just because that path is relative?

Cheers,
David.
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