Re: Enhancement to psql command, feedback.

From: Steven Lembark <lembark(at)wrkhors(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: lembark(at)wrkhors(dot)com
Subject: Re: Enhancement to psql command, feedback.
Date: 2018-05-10 14:46:40
Message-ID: 20180510094640.29cd4d76@wrkhors.com
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The whole point of "#!" working in shell is that the two-bytes
(a) mark the file as executable by a specific shell command and
(b) are a shell comment.

One fairly simple fix that would make annotating here scripts
and the like simpler for shell(ish) execution would be simply
ignoring all text from "\n#" to the first "\n", which would
allow the #! to function as a comment -- just as it does in
the shell.

Another way to do it would be adding a '#' command to psql,
similar to '\', that accepts a one-line directive and ignores
it entirely. This would use the existing framework for detecting
the context of '\' as a command, just with a different magic
char.

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