Re: Petition: Treat #!... shebangs as comments

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:51:35PM +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote:

> Anyway, this is a little bit complex, as psql many times needs arguments.

Agreed.

> > Could we please have the PostgreSQL lexer treat #!... on the first line of a
> > file as a comment? This would enable .psql scripts to be run with dot-slash
> > notation
...
> It's been pointed it can be done with a shell script. If you can live
> with a little noise you can have it dual ( The \r makes it ignore the
> previous lines, the \q makes it exit before reading the EOF line ):
>
> ~/tmp $ cat kk.sql
> #!/bin/bash
> psql service=redacted <<EOF
> \r
> select 2*3*7;
> \q
> EOF

Nice solution but that won't work on Windows ...

Karsten
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